Former Vice President and All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said in Abuja Thursday that the northern part of the country has the highest rate of illiteracy rate in the country with 70 percent of its people lacking formal education.
Atiku, who spoke at a public presentation of a book ?Re-thinking the Legal Framework for Rights of Women and Girl-Child in Nigeria?, written in honour of His wife, Hajiya Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar, also said that 38 percent of women in Nigeria lack formal education while only four percent of them have higher education.
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