Hassan Yusuf, Aisha Rabiu, Suleiman Mamuda, Saifullahi Abdulkadir
Nigeria has the largest number of out – of – school children in the world it is estimated that one in every five out – of – school children around the globe is in Nigeria. Even though basic education is free and compulsory in the country about 10.5 million children aged 5 to 14 years are out of school. About 50 percent of these children live in the north region. This paper examine out of school children in Nigeria and factors that contribute to the incidence of out of school children such as early child marriage, economic barriers, conflict, socio-cultural norms and lack of inclusive policies practices in school. Lastly, the paper give out some recommendations as a way of tacking the problems that is both governmental and non-governmental efforts are necessary to tackle the current situation through the use of education innovation such as the accelerated education programme, combined with their conventional interventions such as rebuilding and expanding of infrastructures, more enrolment sensitization, Economic intervention, improved security and legal enforcement.