PapaBrowne:

Are you serious This is the first time Education is receiving the highest budget allocation in Nigeria and you are complaining!! We have a President that has just established 9 new Universities(There were just 27 FG Universities b4 now established in the last 60 years) and you are complaining. We have a President that approved N40 Billion for Research in Universities and you are complaining? All these in less than 1 year!!

We have had Presidents that have ignored the education sector, but Jonathan is surely not one of them!!!

PapaBrowne:

Are you serious This is the first time Education is receiving the highest budget allocation in Nigeria and you are complaining!! We have a President that has just established 9 new Universities(There were just 27 FG Universities b4 now established in the last 60 years) and you are complaining. We have a President that approved N40 Billion for Research in Universities and you are complaining? All these in less than 1 year!!

We have had Presidents that have ignored the education sector, but Jonathan is surely not one of them!!!

hercules07:

We need to decree that allocation to education at both state and federal levels should be at least 25 percent, we do not need more universities, we need to bring the existing ones up to standard first.

PeeDaVinci:

@PapaBowne
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Clapping for the very wise Jona who deem it fit to allocate 40 billion for research in universities, and 350 billion for representathieves/legislathieves!!!!! Classic sense of priority

PapaBrowne:

Are you serious This is the first time Education is receiving the highest budget allocation in Nigeria and you are complaining!! We have a President that has just established 9 new Universities(There were just 27 FG Universities b4 now established in the last 60 years) and you are complaining. We have a President that approved N40 Billion for Research in Universities and you are complaining? All these in less than 1 year!!

We have had Presidents that have ignored the education sector, but Jonathan is surely not one of them!!!

wesley80:

Papa abeg no mind the OP. people just want to criticize becos they assume its the latest fad. U dont have to look to deep to realize the OP is educated but pretty Daft!

All in all, the so-called reforms embarked on by the Ministry of Education amount to little more than uncoordinated forays into aspects of Nigerian education leading in some cases to reversals and summersaults. We have seen the recent creation of more universities by the federal government when the older ones are inadequately funded and starved of resources. We have seen new policy statements on nomadic education at a time when thousands of Nigerian children in established primary schools have no teachers and no classrooms. The minister apparently thinks it is undesirable to have monotechnics, although some people query the wisdom in taking that course of action. We have seen half-hearted attempts by the minister to experiment with a new educational system in lieu of the 6:3:3:4 system. All these initiatives do not show a coherent plan on education either in terms of policy or the allocation of resources. Funding for education remains a measly 3% of the budget as against the 26% proposed by the United Nations for developing countries.

But such is the crisis of education in this country that the time has come to engage the active participation of all stakeholders – students, lecturers, parents, educational experts, religious organisations etc on how to salvage it. The proliferation of substandard private schools and illegal universities should be stopped. There ought to be a discernible policy on education and its relevance to the future development of Nigeria.

Quality education is an investment in the future of this country and a restoration of past glory. The humiliation and despair that proud Nigerians feel about the deterioration of our educational institutions is an issue that has to be immediately addressed. As of now, education will probably not improve until Nigerian leaders including legislators are persuaded, as an act of patriotism, to send their children to Nigerian schools. The Minister is entitled to congratulate herself on work well done, but she needs to do much more than stoking the fire and offer a comprehensive blueprint for Nigerian education.

PapaBrowne:

Are you serious This is the first time Education is receiving the highest budget allocation in Nigeria and you are complaining!! We have a President that has just established 9 new Universities(There were just 27 FG Universities b4 now established in the last 60 years) and you are complaining. We have a President that approved N40 Billion for Research in Universities and you are complaining? All these in less than 1 year!!

We have had Presidents that have ignored the education sector, but Jonathan is surely not one of them!!!

Eko Ile:

Where is the sense and wisdom in creating new varsities when the existing ones are glorified elementary schools with non existing teaching tools, empty libraries, worthless academic standards and poorly paid lecturers?


Is it by force to open mouth and talk rubbish? Please stop the nonsense and quit insulting our intelligence.

Kobojunkie:

CORRECTION --- OUR schools are NOT OVERCROWED. The Ministry of Education has not been able to provide reports showing this to be the case, even as it argues that adding more schools is solution to the problem experienced in the system today. In addition the ministry has not explored capacity building options

If anything, majority of our schools have been operating UNDER CAPACITY for so long now, mainly because[b] most of the schools are UNDER STAFFED and UNEQUIPPED to handle the load they were initially built to handle. [/b]

Orikinla:

An intelligent leader would have proposed N350 billion for capital projects in the education sector.

And N35 billion for the National Assembly.

He has only continued to approve the Jumbo salaries of the members of the National Assembly who have been misappropriating their constituency project funds.

PapaBrowne:

How else on planet earth would you define overcrowding if not the perfect definition you have given above!! You are so obviously contradicting yourself!

We have schools with 1000 students managing a lecture theater built for 100 students!! If that is not overcrowding, what else is! We have room hostels built for 4 students housing 20 students! IMO that is an overcrowded situation!
Asides we have 2 million students taking JAMB yearly with universities admitting just 160,000. That is enough reason to build new universities. What I expect you to demand is that the new universities be built to international standards! That is a perfect starting point! Not coming here to critic what is an obvious good solution!! Doesn't it amaze you that in 60 years only 27 FG universities were built? If GEJ decides to build 9 new ones(thats 25%), in just 8 months of office, that is a massive massive step in the right direction!!