Education in Nigeria is more of a public enterprise that has witnessed government complete and dynamic intervention and active participation (FRN, 1981). It is the view of the formulated education policy in Nigeria to use education as a vehicle in achieving national development. Education policy being an instrument of change in Nigeria has been a product of evolution through series of historical developments.
The National Policy on Education in Nigeria was launched in 1977. The orientation of the policy is geared towards self-realization, individual and national efficiency, national unity etc. aimed at achieving social, cultural, economic, political,
scientific and technological development. In 1985, the objectives of the policy were broadened to include free primary education among others. As noted by Anyanwu et al. (1999), this policy has been reviewed from time to time.
Succinctly put, the structural pattern of schooling under the current policy is organized into a 6-3-3-4 system. The system consists of six years of primary education, three years of junior secondary school, three years of senior secondary school, and four years of tertiary education (Anyanwu et al., 1999: 300).
Since the inception of the Obasanjo led administration in 1999, a Universal Basic Education Scheme was launched in 1999. The specific targets of the scheme are total eradication of illiteracy by the year 2010 and increase in adult literacy rate from 57% to 70% by 2003 (FRN, 2000: 53).
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