Following a case instituted by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project,SERAP, against the Nigerian government, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in November 2010 delivered a ground-breaking judgment requiring the government to provide as of right, free, quality, and compulsory basic education to every Nigerian child.

The court among others ordered the government to: make adequate provisions for the compulsory and free education of every child forthwith; ensure that the right to education is not to be undermined by corruption; ensure that funds disbursed for basic education are properly used for this purpose; and recover stolen education funds to cover the shortfall in order to avoid denying any of its people the right to education.

But, 9months later,  President Jonathan's government has neither acknowledged the judgment nor taken steps to implement the letter and spirit of the judgment.

Yet, more than 12 million Nigerian children of school age still roam the streets and have no access to quality basic education.

The NGO recently urged  Nigerians and non-Nigerians to send Facebook and Twitter messages to President Jonathan and the Attorney General in a campaign to get the government to provide free, compulsory and quality education for all Nigerian children as shown below.

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Education-Right-Now/226439864066715?sk=wall Or 

http://www.facebook.com/serapnigeria with the message:

President Jonathan, Please ACT NOW on the right to free education (judgment) for all Nigerian children!

Twitter: @presgoodluck, @JGoodlucktweets, @serapnigeria , @ hashtag #EducationRightNowGEJ.

Tweet, re-tweet: ChildRight2Education: President Jonathan Please Act Now!”

As we all join this campaign, the question is should Jonathan provide free, compulsory, quality education for every Nigerian?
Or is it that the federal government does not have the resources and capacity to effectively provide free education at the primary level?

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Why not?
Nigeria has the resources, why shouldn't Nigerians benefit? Free education will definitely stem the spate of unprovoked violence in Northern Nigeria, rid the North of polio and poverty, reduce militancy in the Niger Delta creek, and minimize kidnapping in the SE/SS, and reduce arm-robbery, ritual murders, area boys (or rascalism if I may borrow GEJ) in the South West.

Free education is a matter of National Security!

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^^^^^ seconded except for the bad comments against Nigerians.Anyway a skilled population is even sale-able in excess, as expatriate. so education is definitely good and if it means wipe people to school than hawk so be it o!!!!! education should be forceful until after a child is above 2oyrs.Atleast you have baggage a diploma.Some parents encourage illiteracy.It should be a firm regulation with instant punishment if a child of school fails to go to school.Welfare officers should go round asking about wards and there education.So that parents found wanting are dealt with.
Any child caught hawking his or her parents should be detained and given some flogging while the kids lick ice cream and are told what is good for them.

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Flog parents? From which world are you?