The paper examines the linkage between Nigeria’s anticipated failure in the
Education for All (EFA) 2015 goals and her policy implementation strategies
in relation to her literacy industry and socio-demographics. The assessment
is premised on the increasing concern for universal literacy, which grew
out of the 1990 World Education Conference in Jomtien and the 2000 Dakar
World Education Forum. The principal aim is to locate valid evidences
that may confirm and explain the expected failure. By way of review and
situation analysis, the paper looks at key intervention strategies of the
Nigerian government under the Universal Basic Education UBE (formerly
Universal Primary Education—UPE) and Nomadic Education policies.
The paper then discusses the interface between the literacy industry and
literacy policy implementation, where evidences of disconnection between
the two is established and brought to bearing with Nigeria’s failure in
the 2015 EFA targets. The paper goes further to juxtapose literacy policy
implementation with major socio-demographic facts in Nigeria, where
additional evidences revealing large scale disagreement between 2015
EFA goals and basic socio-demographic influences in Nigeria are found in
support of the thesis of this paper that Nigeria will indeed fail to deliver
the 2015 EFA targets, and that the failure is significantly consequent upon
poor policy implementation strategy arising from (1) strategic disconnection
between her literacy industry and literacy policy implementation and (2)
Unsettled socio-demographic influences. Some measures are recommended
to reinvigorate Nigeria in the global drive towards EFA beyond 2015.