Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It's depriving students of essential tools for th

(1 Jul 2024)
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Ibadan, Nigeria - 28 May 2024
1. Wide of tilted power lines in Ibadan, a city with little to no access to electricity
2. Wide of school
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Muyideen Raji, founder of Excellent Moral School: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“There has never been electricity here and that is affecting so many things particularly education.”
4. Mid of Muyideen Raji teaching students in a classroom
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Muyideen Raji, founder of Excellent Moral School:
“Today, education has gone beyond writing and listening to teachers in class alone.”
6. Mid of a teacher helping a student
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Muyideen Raji, founder of Excellent Moral School: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“Education has gone digital and there’s no way we can give the students the best of what they need without electricity.”
8. Mid of a student cleaning the chalkboard
9. Wide of students sitting at desks in a classroom
10. Wide of two teachers singing a song with students
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdulhakeem Adedoja, head of Lorat Nursery and Primary School: ++PARTIALLY COVRED++
“One of the biggest problems about this whole thing about this electricity is that we have connected wires around here, we’re even connected to the grid. Still yet, we don’t have access to this electricity and this affects the school as a whole because we cannot even put our gadgets to use because there’s no electricity around us.”
12. Various of electrical transformers
13. Mid of dusty computers
14. Close of children flipping through a book
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdulhakeem Adedoja, head of Lorat Nursery and Primary School: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“One of the biggest worries is the fact that we don’t want to lose this school soon because people are going moving away from this area in the name of there’s no light. I have some people who have relocated just because they say that there’s no light in this community. So, we are losing pupil in the process. People have to go with their parents and leave the school.”
16. Wide of a student walking outside of the school
17. Various of students line up and singing
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Muyideen Raji, founder of Excellent Moral School: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“We could be using a generator, in fact we have a generator but the cost of fuel is very exorbitant.”
19. Mid of teacher counting off students
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Muyideen Raji, founder of Excellent Moral School: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“We engage in charity, most of the children, their parents they are not capable of paying for the school fees of the children so, we sponsor them ourselves. Because we want education in this community.”
21. Mid of students gathered in a classroom
22. Wide of Ibadan
AP Video by: Dan Ikpoyi
Produced By: Julián Trejo Bax
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STORYLINE:
Dimly lit and stuffy classrooms stir with life every morning as children file in. Rays of sunlight stream through wooden windows, the only source of light. Pupils squint at their books and intermittently the blackboard as teachers try to hold their attention.
It's a reality for many schoolchildren across Nigeria, where many buildings don't have access to the national electricity grid.
AP Video by: Dan Ikpoyi
Produced By: Julián Trejo Bax
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