Buhari’s 2021 budget share for education is Nigeria's lowest in 10 years

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The troubled sector receives a meagre 5.6 per cent of the total budget, much below the recommended benchmark.

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According to the document, the Dakar framework recommended governments to take lead in increasing financial commitments to EFA, with the EFA high-level steering committee proposing that 15 per cent to 20 percent of annual budgets be earmarked for education.

In 2011, the sector was allocated N393.8 billion — 9.3 per cent of the total budget while it got N468.3 billion — 9.86 per cent of the 2012 budget; N499.7 billion representing 10.1 per cent of the total 2013 budget; N494.7 billion – 10.5 per cent of the 2014 budget and N484.2billion – 10.7 per cent of the 2015 budget.

Asides the decaying infrastructure, the incessant strike actions embarked upon by workers is one of the evidence of the poor funding of the sector. It is the major factor for the continued closure of universities even after the federal government had declared that schools can reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Reacting to the proposed budget, Adeola Egbedokun, a lecturer in OAU and the Branch Chairman of ASUU in the school, described the federal government as being insensitive to the concerns of the sector.

He added that the government should stop telling schools to look inwards, restating that a school is a knowledge-generating entity and not a revenue-generating venture.

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This government does not have education on it's front burner.

ness_valentine He got the highest office in the land without education so I don't expect him to act otherwise!

earl_buka How on earth do you expect someone who have been using a black and white TV 📺 all his life to go to the market and get a LED TV for his family. He will rather buy a very big black and white one with all happiness.

And they cry hoodlums... Why a single senator earnings a month can sponsor an entire community throughout tertiary institutions RECONSTRUCTNIGERIA Endsars

He can not spend on Education, when he himself didnt go to school...

He will soon establish ministry of Cattle and allocate higher budget to that ministry than Education and health combined.... You can't give what you don't have

Guess more hoodlums are required.

When he became a president as an illiterate, he’s saying you can become anything you want to be with out education

You want an illiterate to fund education, what for? That would be a betrayal against illiteracy

More “hoodlums” then

Is this a government with the interest of youths and education at heart?

That's to tell you when you don't have education as a priority. How will he know when he's not educated himself.

Wellhis own IQ seems low so this is not surprising

With education budget at its lowest and the system poised to steal more than 50%, what is the fate of public school system.

What do you expect from an illiterate?

You can’t give what you don’t have . You don’t expect a primary school dropout to care about education. It keeps the youths uneducated and make them easily manipulated

FGN failed from day one in making the NIGERIAN Educational policy and that's why it is not producing good results and not valued

What did you expect from someone who is not educated...🙄

This is what to expect from an illiterate.

Na wa o😭

This is a discredited fake news. The education budget is 1.13 trillion.

How much for barbing his hair this year?

Boko is haram

For someone with no educational background is expected, abi he shock you?

Time bomb ticking.......

😊 thank you Mr President, I believe Western education is a waste of time and money. istandwithbuhari

Maybe that's why hoodlums are everywhere now. Calling masses that voted them hoodlums now. They haven't seen anything yet

maziobieze They need more hoodlums

Are u surprise? E shock u? What do u expect?

His Ancestors never loved education. His children are going for going sake. They despise education with passion in the North.

Speaks volumes about our leaders. We're on the right course. Your generation is doing well✌️💯🙌

You don't expect somebody with No certificate to attend to edu.

EndSARS

Cattle rearer has no business with education

What do you expect from an illiterate ?

What do we expect from a president who barely had a primary sch certificate🙄

The result of the feeble attention given to critical sectors of the economy over the psst 21years is what we are seeing today. I hope the ruling class will learn greatly from this.

E shock you? E no shock me o

If mbuhari is still alive, he no go die better

Stop deceiving us.....the bastard is dead!!! ReformNigeria

What do you expect?

He doesn't know the importance since he didn't get one.

alonika ASUU is on a long thing

Why am I not surprised? It is easy to control uneducated people just the way he used urchins as backup against legitimate protesters.

What do you expect from someone who rule a whole country with No educational background/qualification

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