Deborah Egunyomi

"By this, the country is now home to the largest number of out-of school children in the world and presents one in six out-of-school children globally."

"The number of out-of-school children in Nigeria has increased from 7.4 million in 2000 to 10.5 million in 2010."

"The Global Monitoring Report on Education-for-All (EFA) of 2012, rated Nigeria as one of the two countries; the other being Egypt with the largest number of illiterates in Africa."

"This means that the number of illiterates increases as more children are out of school."

"Continuing education is imperative in balancing life equation for meaningful human existence, I call for more stakeholders’ involvement in developing continuing education programmes."

"I expect powerful and concrete declaration from the proceedings of this conference, which we will call the ‘Ibadan Declaration,’ just as that of Hamburg’s."

"Organisations and agencies are to rally round and develop a policy of participation, reward, evaluation and sponsorship in continuing education programmes."

"Continuing education as the most powerful and effective education strategy capable of reducing the rising rate of illiteracy in the nation."

"I suggest the need for higher institutions to develop a pragmatic policy of accessing funds set ‎aside for the development of academic and non-academic staff."

"There is also the urgent need for the restructuring of TETFUND as the main resource centre for financial support of tertiary institutions, this would reduce the excessive bureaucracy attached to its functions."

"Adult Education is the key to the 21th century country."

"Adult education is a multi-disciplinary field that is all-embracing. It’s all-embracing in that up till now, we have not even got a precise definition of adult education. A layman sees adult education as a kind of education for elderly people, forgetting that the constitutional definition of adult education in Nigeria starts from the age of 18. However, there are different definitions of who an adult is from country to country, region to region, state to state."