ABUJA—Minister of State for Education, Dr. Kenneth Gbagi, has attributed the dismal state of education in Nigeria to successive governments’ lip service and negligence.
This year’s total budget (capital & recurrent) to the Ministry is N271.1billion, but the implementation status is just 27.73%, just few weeks to the end of the last quarter of the year.
Last year’s budget was even less, it was N224.6billion, and yet it was not 100 percent executed, provoking the Minister of State to regret that several decades after the country signed the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, protocol, budgets for education remained far below the 26 percent minimum set by the United Nations’ agency.
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