How Nigeria’s Out-of-School Children Crisis Threatens National Stability, Economic Growth and Social Development — and What Must Now Change. Nigeria is losing a generation — not to emigration, but to exclusion. Brain drain, it turns out, does not begin at the airport. It begins in childhood, in the communities where millions of Nigerian children never enter a classroom at all.

This report unveils the chilling reality of insecurity’s stranglehold on the Nigerian education sector. Virtually every year since 2014, hundreds of innocent children in primary and secondary schools across the nation are snatched away, their dreams held hostage for ransom.

The IA-Foundation Out-of-School Children Summit is a gathering of education stakeholders and private-sector investors who are passionate about finding solutions to the education crisis of 20.2 million children who are not accessing any form of education.