ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the state of education in Nigeria with a focus on migrant farmers in the Niger Delta region. It discusses the adverse effect of migrant fishing on the education of the children of migrant fishermen who relocate to Kpakiama and Torugbene in the Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State during the fishing seasons. The chapter observes that migrant fishing is the main cause of the high failure and drop-out rate of students living in the creeks in the region. It proffers solutions to this problem by advocating the establishment of mobile schools in these communities during the fishing seasons. Language deficiency in English can be attributed to the dominance of the policy of ‘English mainly’ as the language of education and the lack of qualified English teachers in most of the nation’s primary and secondary schools.
