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Using Nigeria as the main case study, this paper explores domestic commitment towards realising AU’s Agenda 2063. AU’s Agenda 2063 seeks to accelerate the building of a prosperous and united Africa based on shared values and equality of opportunity. This paper considers the achievement of universal primary education as critical goal needed to be engaged with in guiding plans and programmes of domestic jurisdictions towards national and global development in the long run. Given that one of the pillars of Agenda 2063 is on expanding and facilitating quality education within the African continent, enabling equal educational opportunity for every learner is considered significant. In this regard, the problem arises as to how educational resources can be organised in order to ensure equal educational opportunity among learners with diverse background. Examining the extent to which existing framework in Nigeria meets the criterion of equal educational opportunity becomes pertinent.
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Umeh, N.C. (2018). Issues of Human Right to Basic Education and Equality of Educational Opportunity in Africa: A Case Study of Nigeria. In: Onuora-Oguno, A., Egbewole, W., Kleven, T. (eds) Education Law, Strategic Policy and Sustainable Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53703-0_2
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