IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH (IJSSMR )

E-ISSN 2545-5303
P-ISSN 2695-2203
VOL. 11 NO. 6 2025
DOI: 10.56201/ijssmr.vol.11no6.2025.pg231.247

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An Assessment of Educationally Disadvantaged Migrant Ebira Farmers Access to Basic Education

Femi Daniel PhD

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Abstract

In Nigeria, the Fulani herders, Ijaw fishermen and migrant farmers are generally behind others in terms of access to basic education. Even so, attention is rarely paid to migrant farmers when it comes to nomadic education. The migrant Ebira farmers are particularly disadvantaged in terms of access to basic education. The study was aimed at determining the level of access of migrant Ebira farmers’ children/wards to basic education. Specifically, the study assessed the level of access to basic education of this group. It examined the opportunities available to them to access basic education and identified the major barriers to their accessing basic education. The study also determined the extent to which the barriers hinder the farmers’ children and wards access to basic education. The survey research design was adopted for the study and a representative sample of migrant Ebira farmers predominantly located in farm settlements in four (4) states namely, Kogi, Edo, Ekiti, Ondo. The sampling method involved using the simple random sampling technique first to select four settlements within each state and then the cluster sampling to select the participant farmers. A self-designed questionnaire and structured interview schedule was constructed and administered on the participants in the selected settlements to generate data for the study. The data obtained was analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, and chi square test of independence. The results show that enrollment in primary school and JSS were quite low, averagely 19.2 % for primary school and 18.1% for junior secondary school (JSS)l. Conversely, those not accessing basic education was quite high on the average 80.8% for primary education and 81.9% for JSS. The proportion of children by genders who are attending primary school and JSS was equitably distributed between the sexes, even though the access to these levels of basic education is low across the selected states

keywords:

Access to barrier, basic education, disadvantaged/marginalized, group, migrant

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