Tag: funding
Poor budgeting negatively impacting education sector, official admits
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono has blamed the seemingly slow pace of the nation’s educational development on poor budgetary...
Are you a member of the Pepper dem gang?
By Tara Aisida
I once accompanied a friend to our children’s school accounts office to help plead for more...
States failed to access N73 bn basic education funds – UBEC
The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has disclosed that a total of N73b UBE intervention funds provided by the federal government are...
Govts’ failure to invest in research fuelling insecurity – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Sunday blamed the federal and state governments for the continuous rise in insurgency and...
NYSC to start accounting for its IGR next year
The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC) Shuaibu Ibrahim on Tuesday said that the service would soon start declaring its internally generated...
AOCOED gets N350m bailout fund from govt
The Lagos State government has approved a N350 million bailout fund for the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED).
Kano to spend 25% of 2020 budget on education
A sum of N59.9 billion constituting 25.2% of the N197 billion budget estimates was devoted to the education ministry in the Kano...
Nigeria to spend N793m on Almajiri education, others in four years
The Nigerian federal government has proposed spending N793 million on integrating Almajiri, Qur’anic and non-formal schools in nine states into formal education...
TETFUND constitutes committee to measure 20 year impact in schools
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) has constituted an impact assessment committee to review its projects and interventions carried out in secondary...
Why private universities cannot charge low fees – Adelakun
The Visitor to Dominion University, Taiwo Adelakun has explained why Nigeria's private universities cannot charge low fees.
Adelakun who...