Nigeria, Sept. 8 -- Ten states were homes to more than half of Nigeria's out-of-school children, data published in the 2018 digest of basic education statistics by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) shows.

The data was also published last month by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its 2020 report on women and men. It shows that a quarter of Nigeria's 40.8 million school-age children were not attending primary education. The 10 states at the top of the chart had about 5.2 million of the country's about 10.2 million out-of-school children.

Kano State had the most with 989,234, while Akwa-Ibom (581,800), Katsina (536,122) and Kaduna (524,670) followed closely.

Other states that ranked high on the list are Taraba (499...