Education?is?a?process?of?acquisition?by?which?an?individual?can?be?trained?mentally?
and?physically?to?be?able?to?effectively?live?in?society.?Education?can?therefore?be?considered?
as?a?major?national?and?international?service,?which?should?be?directed?to?fulfilling?human?
needs.?According?to?Holborn?(2004),?education?is?an?aspect?of?socialization,?which?includes?
the?acquisition?of?knowledge?and?the?learning?of?skills.??With?the?current?global?concern?on?
the?need?to?fight?illiteracy?and?socialize?education?for?all?men?and?women,?especially?in?
developing?countries,?this?paper?aims?to?respond?to?some?ambiguities,?realities?and?rhetoric?
about?UNICEF’S?attempt?to?contribute?to?the?development?of?education?in?Sokoto?state,?
Nigeria.?In?this?respect,?the?paper?has?been?divided?into?five?parts.?The?first?part?of?the?paper?
introduces?the?background?of?the?study,?significance,?scope?and?limitations.?The?second?
segment?outlines?the?features?of?the?educational?system?in?Sokoto?state,?education?as?a?
development?right?for?children?and?adults,?the?present?situation?of?educational?
development?in?Sokoto?focusing?on?pre-primary?education,?non-formal?education,?
necessities?of?female?education,?and?the?contribution?of?UNICEF?to?education?in?community?
schools?and?Sokoto?State.?The?third?part?introduces?the?instruments?used?in?data?collection,?
sampling?and?sampling?techniques,?validity?and?reliability,?method?of?data?analysis,?and?
problems?encountered?in?data?collection?and?analysis.?Part?four?examines?the?data?
presentation,?analysis?and?discussions?of?the?findings.?The?final?part?focuses?on?the?future?
perspectives?of?the?UNICEF?Educational?programme?in?Sokoto?State.?The?paper?will?now?
commence?by?briefly?looking?at?the?geo-economic?and?historical?background?of?Sokoto?State?
in?order?to?provide?a?context?for?the?ensuing?discussions.