Federal Government allocation to Education in last 10 years

Despite the challenges faced by Nigeria’s education sector and calls for the government to increase funding to the sector, Nigeria’s education sector has only languished a small per cent of the national budget for the past several years.

While the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recommended that at least 15% to 20% of the nation’s budget be allocated to the education sector, we discovered that the highest education allocation in the last ten years was 10.7% in 2015. The lowest was 5.6% in the 2021 national budget.

What are your thoughts regarding these figures?

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