Our government no longer need a lecture on the importance of education. Approximately, these are in billions of naira.

Thus, from N306.3bn in 2011, it moved  to N400.15bn in 2012, to N426.53bn in 2013, to N493bn in 2014, to 492bn in 2015, to N369bn in 2016. To achieve this however, there must be a change in the attitude of Nigerians towards giving for educational purposes. 2017 Budget: A Continuous Pauperisation Of Nigerian Education System -By Bamidele Williams, Rahama Sadau: Why is good to stay away from EXTREMISTS -By Usama Abdullahi, Buhari, Good Governance Will Silence Social Media -By Fredrick Nwabufo, Why Nigerian Youths May Not Listen To The Government Anymore -By Mohammed Aliyu Baba, Role Of Women In Sixty Years Of Independence -By Aliyu Idris, That MOPPAN's haphazard decision to dismiss Rahma Sadau -By Usman Abdullahi Koli, Avoiding The Root In Analysis Will Be An Effort In Futility; Can We Have A Nigeria Of Our Dream?

Representing 40% of only California State University. N620.5 billion, which is 7.05% of the total estimate was allocated to the education ministry in the 2019 budget.

They owe us in respect to short fall in salaries, earn academic allowances, they owe universities in terms of intervention fund that we fought for in 2013.

***Budget, grossly inadequate — ASUP.

However, the resultant effect is inevitable in accordance with the opposite law. This has not always been the case in Nigeria. The immortal words of Kofi Annan, a Man of Peace in a World of War, described Knowledge as power. The percentage of the education budget when compared with the budget sizes in 2017 and 2018 (both proposed and approved) are 7.41%, 7.03% and 7.14% respectively.

On the whole, a total of N540.01bn will be expended on education sector in 2017. The advances of humanity and continuous possibility splatter knowledge of the capability of smartness. He said that several agreements the union and the federal government signed in 2012 were yet to be implemented.He listed the agreements to include, non-implementation of CONTISS, poor state of polytechnics, under-funding of the sector and non-implementation of NEEDS assessment report on polytechnics, among others.He noted that having given the present administration more than one year to settle down and address their demands, it seemed that the government is not serious in addressing the matter. National Issues, Article of Faith compared to 2017 education budget of N540.89bn, though small, if the budget sizes of 2017 and 2018, of N7.44 trillion and N8.61 trillion respectively, were considered. In 2017 budget recently passed by the national assembly, N455.41 billion is set aside for Education. A sum of N691.07 billion constituting 6.7% has been allocated to the Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education in the 2020 national budget. Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site.

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While the estimates given above are limited to the education ministry, EduCeleb.com notes that education funding in Nigeria extends to some other ministries, departments and agencies that support the education sector. In 2016,  the education sector which got N369.6bn from a total national budget of N6.07t was described as still the lowest since 2012. What government owes our members are in categories. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. We are still in shock with the allocation to Education because it is a betrayal of trust. If they can come up with an allocation that is not up to 5 percent, they are not keeping to their words. The sums are meant to adequately cater for the 28 parastatals as well as 37 federal universities, 25 federal polytechnics, 21 federal colleges of education and 104 federal unity schools directly under its care.

LAST week Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari released the 2017 budget of N7.298t with the Ministry of Education expected to gulp N398.01b in recurrent expenditure. On his part, the  President, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP,  Mr. Usman Dutse, speaking with Vanguard via WhatsApp lamented that the 2017 budget for education was inadequate considering the huge indebtedness of the government to the union.

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LAST week Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari released the 2017 budget of N7.298t with the Ministry of Education expected to gulp N398.01b in recurrent expenditure. All times in GMT/UTC No vote recorded in Alaska Genera... By Peter Egwuatu The stock market Monday recorded a new high after five months of low activity as the benchmark index, N... By Emmanuel Elebeke The Director-General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu A... By Owei Lakemfa THE most fundamental human right to the journalist is life, followed by the right to wages or income. Suspected militants beheaded over a dozen men and teenagers participating in a male initiation ceremony in northern Moza... Lekki Gardens, Nigeria’s Premier Pan African Property Investment Company is upgrading and beautifying some of her comple... German luxury carmaker BMW said Wednesday that its third-quarter net profit grew, beating expectations, as demand recove... Election results sourced from DW; based on Associated Press data. The ministry got allocated only 7.04% or N605.8 billion in the 2018 proposal, 7.4 % or N550 billion of that of  2017 and 4% or N369.6 billion in 2016. Check your inbox now to confirm your subscription.

[…] Nigeria allocates 6.7% of 2020 budget to education ministry […]. Learn how your comment data is processed. This year JAMB students population of 1,736,571 again reveals it. We are trying to do our analysis of the budget. Of the N671.07 billion allocated to the Federal Ministry of Education, the sum includes the statutory transfer allocated to the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), which is N111.79bn. Contact him via abdussalam@educeleb.com. The development had since generated reactions from concerned stakeholders, saying that the amount allocated to education was too small due to enormous problems bedevilling the sector. However, with the established unenthusiastic, listless and languid reactions shown to the education system by the government overtime, the universities in the country as a matter of urgency must reduce and evolve from their dependency on government funding that has been driving the nation’s education system backward.

However, the problem came when the universities could not increase in facilities and standard with the exponential population increase of 45million at independence to the present over 182million. A Nigerian newspaper and Online version of the Vanguard, a daily publication in Nigeria covering Nigeria news, Niger delta, general national news, politics, business, energy, sports, entertainment, fashion,lifestyle human interest stories, etc, ***Says, lecturers being paid half salary since Dec 2015 Many of us are being paid between 40-80 percent of our salaries. 2017 Budget: A Continuous Pauperisation Of Nigerian Education System -By Bamidele Williams According to the Compulsory, Free Universal Basic Education Act of 2004, the basic education funds are drawn from 2% of the consolidated revenue of the country from a previous year. But, maybe not really. Website Designed & Managed by SETFRON LTD. Representing about 7% of the total budget against the UNESCO 25% standard.

Tagged the “Budget of Sustaining Growth and Job Creation”, the budget estimate is of the highest ever since Nigeria’s independence. I don’t think what the allocation can do with respect to all of these put together apart from Capital Recurrent Expenditure that they captured in the 2017 budget.”. While this budget is for the federal level alone, it is still less than adequate for the essential development needed in the sector.

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They have been paying us incomplete salary for almost a year now; since December 2015 till date. READ our Privacy-policy and cookie policy. Beyond these, N2.45 trillion was dedicated to debt servicing while N296 billion was provided for Sinking Fund to retire maturing bods issued to local contractors. Scholars have at various fora called on governments at all levels to increase education funding for better results. The budget allocation will not be able to address any of our issues whether we are talking of short fall in payment of salary, arrears of salary or even the development of our facilities.

Besides, under capital expenditure, it was stated in the budget that the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) will get N92 billion and Education N50 billion. Thus, ASUP is expecting a total of N20.7bn from the government.”. We told them that the allocation of education moved from 11 percent in 2015 to 8 percent in 2016, they assured us that we would see significant improvement in 2017. “We are still studying the budget.

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This is just as the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) is also being owed  N20.8 billion arrears.Reacting to the education budget, ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi in a telephone conversation with Vanguard described the budgetary allocation of N398.01bn  as a betrayal of trust, adding that ASUU is still in shock and still studying the budget.He said: “ASUU still finds it difficult to believe that education budget for 2017 is N398.01bn. N620.5 billion, which is 7.05% of the total estimate was allocated to the education ministry in the 2019 budget. This only confirms that education in Nigeria will still continue as has been the case in the past as to paucity of funds. What we have are youths that specialises in building walls rather than bridges, Weapons in places of books, Corruption in place of morality and to crown it all, Ignorance in place of intellectualism and wisdom.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had presented a budget proposal of N10.33 trillion before a joint session of the National Assembly last Tuesday. Leaving majority of the existing universities, especially the relatively cheap public ones to absorb the huge number of students graduating from secondary school. They predicted a tough year for the sector.

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“They are not only owing ASUU per se, they are owing the university system. Statistics from the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)  disclosed that Federal Government owes ASUU N124bn earned allowance from 2013 to 2016, just as it also owes the union  N495bn accumulated arrears.

Bamidele Williams, a Journalist, writes from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. The ministry got allocated only 7.04% or N605.8 billion in the 2018 proposal, 7.4 % or N550 billion of that of 2017 and 4% or N369.6 billion in 2016. Technical Feedback: whatsapp 08023469027

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Within the total estimates, the ministry would be getting N490.2 billion for recurrent expenditure and N50.95 billion for capital expenditure. “Then our arrears of allowances.

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We will respond comprehensively at the appropriate time. Contning, he said, “Even the Committee on Education in the National Assembly, assured us that they were going to improve on the last year’s budget.



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