Adamu, who was spoken to by Mr. Prinzo James, Deputy Director, Basic and Secondary Education, Ministry of Education, said this at the 2018 International Literacy Day Celebration.
He said out of this figure, females represented almost 60 percent of the populace, while an aggregate of 11 million kids was out of school.
As indicated by him, the expanding low dimension of proficiency aptitudes accomplished by the a large number of students who finished some formal school instruction, made the circumstance more convoluted.
Adamu said the current situation called for critical consideration as the nation endeavors to guarantee the accomplishment of SDGs by 2030.
"With these unwholesome insights in our grasp, it ends up apparent that purposeful endeavors are required so as to quicken the procedures for battling lack of education among kids, adolescents and grown-ups.
"In this manner, each exertion went for uniting numerous partners ought to be focused on propelling proficiency and deep-rooted learning, will get the support of the service of instruction.
"The Ministerial Strategic Plan for training segment has thought about the significance of youth and grown-up education and gave the part a prime position in the archive.
"I might want to guarantee you that arrangements are underway by the Federal Government to dispatch a National Mass Literacy Campaign with a view to tending to the high rate of youth and grown-up absence of education in the nation," he said.
The pastor said that the topic of the 2018 Literacy Day "Education and Skills Development " was adept, as the worldwide pattern was on expertise improvement for young people and grown-ups.
He said education must be taken past the intellectual area to the basic dimension that instills the subject with deduction abilities and utilitarian proficiency.
The UNESCO Representative, Mr. Stephen Onyekwelu, said UNESCO was inspired with the energy the Kano state government has appeared in the zone of proficiency and Non-Formal Education.
Onyekwelu said the new International abilities procurement focus which has 22 unique aptitudes, was a viable case of education and abilities obtaining.
He asked different states to take a signal from what the Kano state government did in the territory of aptitudes improvement.
Onyekwelu said the test of education was in Nigeria as well as a worldwide issue.
He, be that as it may, said the test was with the new flood of innovation and how the elderly individuals would be encouraged the 21st-century requests of mechanical advancement.
He called for partners bolster in the battle against lack of education, saying it was not simply the duty of the legislature.
Dr. Garba Abari, Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), said education could do significantly more in Nigeria than some other message anybody could lecture.
Spoken to by Mrs. Metto Edekobi, Director of State Operations, he said that "to counter-revolt, proficiency must endeavor and obliviousness must bite the dust."
Abari said the staff of the NOA were accessible to help NMEC in the entirety of their projects, and that the organization would accomplice NMEC to build the dimension of proficiency.
He pushed for the presentation of municipal training in proficiency focuses, approaching everybody to help the legislature and NMEC by teaching the ignorant people in their different networks.
NAN reports that the International Literacy Day is praised on Sept. 8 consistently as proclaimed by UNESCO.
This year points the 52nd commemoration of Literacy Day.
- NAN
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