Malam Adamu Adamu says criminalizing the parents of stay-at-home children is an effective way of forcing them to have their offspring educated.

The United Nations Children’s Fund says Nigeria has one of the highest rates of children out of school.

Two thirds of the more than ten-and-a-half million not registered for school live in northern parts of  Nigeria threatened by the Boko Haram Islamist insurgents.

In other areas, poor parents keep their children out of school to send them to work.

Only 61 percent of children between six and eleven years old are regularly in class.

Education Minister Malam Adamu Adamu says this is undermining Nigeria’s education system. 

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