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Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has warned that underfunding may spell doom for the education sector if not addressed.

The legal icon, who noted that budgetary allocations have not been good, said that under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, it was increased to 12 per cent, but regrettably, the vote for the sector under the current administration has reduced geometrically.

“Government is not doing enough to fund education. UNESCO directed governments to set aside 26 per cent to fund education, but what have they done? During the Western region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo set aside 22 per cent , military came and reduced it to nothing. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 budgeted 12 per cent and now it is just six per cent.

“Added to the foregoing was also our leaders who are very selfish. There are many Nigerians who could buy me, who are expected to set up a university like this to give functional education to Nigerians at affordable fees, but they never did”.

 

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Oga na burial ceremony we dey now. The killing was some years back.

“May kill’? or bury education in Nigeria. Let's think. Where would the funding come from? Nigeria is a fantastically poor, socialist country pretending to be a capitalist country. We have not yet determined how we want to live as a nation and until then it's just pure vibes

Good observation & it's unfortunate that money that should be used for education is expended in payment of ransom

Is Education in a coma different from dead?

Education is already dead, just that it has not been buried . Sad enough the govt does not care . They are more concerned with building ranches for herders. They fail to realize that if education is properly funded & administered, insecurity will reduce drastically .

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