Spread the wordThe Save the Children Nigeria (SCI) has called for stronger government investment, full implementation of the Safe Schools declaration, and urgent security measures to shield learning spaces from violence. The organisation argues that without safe schools and adequate funding, the ambitions of a young majority will be constrained by insecurity, learning poverty, teacher shortages, poor retention, and a rapidly widening digital divide. Their leadership is essential at a time when the education sector is strained by insecurity, learning poverty, teacher shortages, low retention rates, and a rapidly widening digital divide. Insecurity, learning poverty, teacher shortages, low retention rates, and a widening digital divide are challenges gripping Nigeria’s education system. Those attacks not only shutter classrooms; they erase years of learning, deepen poverty, and break the fragile social compact between families and the state.