Authors : O. Oduwaiye Rhoda, Shehu Raheem Adaramaja and Onasanya Samuel Adenubi
Abstract: The United Nations had set the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) to assist developing countries like Nigeria to meet up with the standards attained in developed worlds. Among the goals of the MDGs is the achievement of the universal basic education. Nigeria, as a developing country is expected by 2015 to meet the provisions of MDGs on basic education. The study focuses on the Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Nigeria. It examines the objectives of the scheme, the components and the challenges; Universal Basic Education attracts mainly children between the ages of 5-14 years. In these years, children are vulnerable to diseases like malaria, polio and socio-economic related diseases like diarrhea, kwashiorkor, cholera etc. A handful is affected by HIV/AIDS while some children of HIV/AIDS parents are orphaned by this disease. Children with these diseases can not maximally benefit from basic education. The need for Nigeria government to technologically drive their effort for a viable child-health care justifies the study. It concludes by offering suggestions as to the improvement of child-health care such as better education of parents, use of television to facilitate instructions, aggressive media campaign and improved environment.
O. Oduwaiye Rhoda, Shehu Raheem Adaramaja and Onasanya Samuel Adenubi, 2009. Technology-Driven and Viable Child-Health Care for Enhanced Management of Universal Basic Education in Nigeria. Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 6: 350-355.