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Distance Education Network for Strengthening the Education Movement in Nigeria

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Nigeria is the largest race in African continent with a population of 140,000,000 people. It also contributes to the high rate of illiterates among the nine populous countries of the world. Existence has always meant for man, a succession of challenges. Moreover, the preservation and utilization of natural resources can only be assured through heavy investments in knowledge and ability aimed at all inhabitants of our country Nigeria. Education represents the conscious, deliberate and well equipped aspect of that steady progression which is the law of all human beings. Challenges are still with us and have not loss nothing in each particular life or given community they arise in different combination and obey a different order of priorities.

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  1. Department of Staff Development and Distance Education School of Distance Learning and Continuing Education Institute of Management and Technology,  , Enugu, Nigeria

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Ogili, E. (2008). Distance Education Network for Strengthening the Education Movement in Nigeria. In: Fong, J., Kwan, R., Wang, F.L. (eds) Hybrid Learning and Education. ICHL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5169. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85170-7_41

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