Nigeria, Feb. 25 -- A disturbing video from a public primary school in Ibiaku Itam, Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, surfaced on social media recently. The footage captured a classroom in disrepair, lacking basic facilities, exposing a quiet emergency that is gradually becoming the norm in oil-rich Akwa Ibom.

Inside the classroom at Primary School, Ibiaku Itam in Ikot Mbonde Community, only four functional dual desks were visible. Four pupils sat on a desk meant for two. Several children sat on the bare floor, hunched over exercise books. Some lie flat on their stomachs to write. Others balanced on broken planks. One of their teachers, without a table, perched on a stool.

The windows were dilapidated, the floor cracked, and...