While speaking on the sidelines of the Renaissance Capital Investment Conference last week in Lagos, he mentioned that for Nigeria to industrialize, it needs to carry out a massive literacy campaign. They need to conduct an adult literacy campaign. All of the data we have shows you cannot take off the economy unless adult literacy is about 70 percent, preferably 80 percent. Presently, Nigeria’s adult literacy rate is 51.08 percent, meaning only 51.08 percent of people aged 15 and older can adequately read and write. So, it started with an adult literacy campaign.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 25, 2018 15:45 UTC