NOMADIC EDUCATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

The importance of nomadic education to national development cannot be over-emphasized. The neglect of any segment of the population of a country can be a potential time bomb, especially if that population contribute significantly to the nation’s economy just as the nomads deed. Education is the birth right of any Nigerian child and this right has been enshrined in the nation’s constitution. Nigeria as a nation needs a functional nomadic education system that can equip the teaming population of the nomads with requisite knowledge, attitudes and skills to enable them relate and adapt successfully to the rapid socioeconomic, cultural and political changes in the society for national development. This paper examined the implications of nomadic education as it relates to national development. It thus examined nomadic education from the perspectives of moral development, socio-cultural development, economic development and political development in the Nigerian society. Some of the recommendations made were: that, government should declare state of emergency on the education of the nomads and strengthen the provision of Such attractive incentives like school meal program, free education, scholarship for higher education to the successful completers ofthe basic compulsory schooling. Government should also provide adequate security to ensure the protection of the lives and properties of the nomads as well as improve the condition of service for teachers in nomadic schools to sustain them and boost their moral.