THE NIGERIA NATIONAL POLICY ON GENDER IN BASIC EDUCATION (2006 - 2015): A POLICY REVIEW OF MILESTONES SCHIEVEMENT

Basic educations still includes the adult and the non- formal programs which comprises of both primary and junior secondary education which is a policy to take charge of the school dropout (Tahir, 2008) cited in (Aboluwodi, 2015) that Universal Basic Education is structured to guarantee access to free education, which leads to reduction in dropout rate to the barest minimum, which also makes education pertinent to meet desires of learners and makes education a lifetime project. In Nigeria, not until recently, there was emergence to rechannel equality in gender, which was to promote living standard of living, and fair environment that is void of discrimination, incorporating inbuilt potentials of all social group, irrespective of circumstances or sex that can give both women and men same voices in decision making and policy execution., different approach to corre3ct and address in Nigeria women's right in the 80s first with the responsibility and further discussion to better the socio economic and political lots of Nigeria women in general, which adopted a framework and guiding principle which are fragile and weak, the weakness of the principle is as a result of the gender issues which has gone out of hands and also it is beyond women enduement method and limit Women in Development (WID) concepts to a more attractive technique of Gender and Development (GAD). OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The main objective of the study is to evaluate the Nigeria National Policy on Gender in Basic Education and its milestone achievements while the specific objectives are to: i. promote equal access and enrolment of girls ii. promote high level of retention, completion and performance of girls iii. advocate the support of stakeholders in resource mobilization iv. create a formidable environment for adequate planning and policy implementation RESEARCH QUESTIONS The following research questions were drawn from the above research objectives: I. How does the Nigeria national policy on gender in basic education promote equal access and enrolment of girls? II. H01: Nigeria national policy on gender in basic education does not significantly promote equal access and enrolment of girls H02: Nigeria national policy on gender in basic education does not significantly promote high level of retention, completion and performance of girls H03: Nigeria national policy on gender in basic education does not advocate the support of stakeholders in resource mobilization H04: Nigeria national policy o