'According to UNICEF, a total of 188 countries have imposed countrywide school closures, affecting more than 1.6 billion children and youth, forcing more than two-thirds of countries to introduce national distance learning platforms, but among low-income countries the share is only 30 percent...  Before this crisis, almost one third of the world’s young people were already digitally excluded...'

Scary statistics there.  

This edition highlights, in figures and direct words of children and young people from across Nigeria, the distruptions caused to academic lives by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This podcast series comes from the stable of the Centre for Children's Health Education, Orientation and Protection (CEE-HOPE), Nigeria's non-governmental organisation (NGO) working on the rights and development of children, young persons and their families. 

Happy listening.