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With N4.68 Trillion Budget Allocation in 6 Years, Nigeria’s Education Sector Struggles to Improve

The Nigerian government has allocated a total amount of N 4.68 trillion in the six (6) years since President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration commenced.

Dataphyte’s analysis into the education budget between 2016 to 2022 shows that  the education sector has not received the recommended 15%.

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) recommended that developing nations should give up to 15-20 per cent of their annual budget to public education. Nigeria’s allocation to the Education sector has not been meeting up with the UNESCO standard, Dataphyte analysis revealed.

The Breakdown

In 2016, a total budget of N6.06 trillion was approved by the National Assembly, N480.28 billion was allocated to the education sector which is about 7.9 percent of the total amount budgeted for the year.

Also, in 2017, N448.44 billion was allocated to the sector, representing about 6.1 per cent of the N7.30 trillion total budgets for the year.

In 2018, the approved budget for the year rose to N9.2 trillion and N651.23 billion which is about 7.1% was allocated to the education sector.

In 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari presented N8.83 trillion estimates to the National Assembly as the year’s budget. The education sector got N745.53 billion, about 8.4 per cent of the total budget.

In 2020, the sector received a total of 686.82 billion, that is about 6.5 per cent of the total approved budget for the year.

For 2021, the education sector received  N742.52billion allocation which is about 5.6 per cent of the total budget for the year, the lowest budget the sector had ever received compared with the previous budgets allocated to the sector in the past.

Presently, out of the 2022 budget totallingN 17.13 trillion a sum of N923.79 billion was allocated to the sector. Though the figure increased, the budget is at 5.4 per cent of the total budget approved by the National Assembly. Based on data acquired by Dataphyte, the percentage of the budget allocated to the sector in  2022 is lower than both 2020 and 2021 figures.

Unfulfilled Promises

In July 2021, the Nigerian government had promised, at the Global Education Summit held in London, to meet up with the global benchmark of 20 per cent and to also increase the 2022 education budget by 50 per cent and to 100 per cent in subsequent years.

In the President’s words ‘’ we commit to progressively increase our annual domestic education expenditure by 50 percent over the next two years and up to 100 per cent by 2025 beyond the 20 per cent global benchmark .’’

Few months after the promise was made, President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2022 budget before the National Assembly on October 7, 2021. A total of N1.18 trillion, an estimate of  7.2% of the total budget was allocated to the sector. The allocated amount shows that there hadn’t been an increment in the amount dispensed to the sector.

The sector continues to face different challenges which has made stakeholders  call on the Federal government  to improve funding to the education sector.

In the past few years, the sector has not been adequately funded, and it’s yet to meet up with the UNESCO 20 per cent recommendation for developing countries. 

Lack of infrastructure , poor welfare, inadequate staffing are part of the challenges the sector continues to face across primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.

According to data from the Ministry of Education, Nigeria has one of the largest out-of-school children figures globally. The country ranks 5th with 10.19 million out- of-school children. About 34% of the total children population across the 6 geopolitical zones in the country.

Insecurity across the different geopolitical zones is an exacerbating factor as school infrastructures have been destroyed and schools forced to close down. Kidnapping of pupils from schools is contributing to low enrollment especially in regions prone to terrorist attacks and thus increasing the number of children out of formal learning.

Stakeholders such as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics(ASUP), have  embarked on several  strike actions to show their  grievances over the state of education in the country and demand action from the Government.Between 2016-2022, there have been several strike actions by the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP).

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Kafilat Taiwo is a Data Journalist & Research executive at Dataphyte with a background in mass communication. She uses research and data to tell stories around Health, Accountability, Gender, Solutions journalism and Investigative reporting to influence change and development.

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President Buhari Approves N320 Billion for 2023 Intervention Budget

President Muhammadu Buhari, has graciously approved the sum of N320 billion for the 2023 Intervention Budget of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).

This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny S.T. Echono during the 2023 TETFund Strategic Planning Workshop held at the Fund’s Headquarters in Abuja.

Speaking at the workshop, Arc. Echono stated that the meeting was a platform to receive feedback and evaluate the performances of  the Fund and its numerous intervention lines to promote a robust and more effective service delivery from TETFund.

He disclosed that under the budget, which is the biggest in the history of the Fund, Universities would receive N1,154,732,133.00 each; Polytechnics N699,344,867.00 each, and Colleges of Education N800,862,602.00.

Echono said, “I am pleased to inform you that Mr. President has approved the 2023 disbursement guidelines in the total sum of N320,345,040,835. On the basis of this, each university shall get for the Year 2023 intervention cycle the total sum of N1,154,732,133.00. This comprises N954,732,123.00 as Annual Direct Disbursement and N200 Million as Zonal Intervention.

“Each Polytechnic shall get N699,344,867.00, comprising N569,344,807.00 as Annual Direct Disbursement and N130 million as Zonal Intervention; while each College of Education shall get N800,862,602.00 comprising N670,862,602.00 as Annual Direct Disbursement and N130 million as Zonal Intervention,” he said.

The TETFund boss emphasized that the disbursement for the year 2023 represents the highest disbursement to each beneficiary institution since the inception of TETFund, adding that the fortunes of the tertiary education sub-sector has improved significantly under President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to him, a total sum of N1.702 trillion has been disbursed to Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions between 2015 to date, compared to N1.249 trillion that was disbursed from inception in 1993 till 2014.

He credited the success and improvement in funding to sustained efforts at expanding and increasing efficiency of the Education Tax (EDT) collections.

“The added impetus is the gracious approval of President Buhari for an increase in Education Tax from 2.0 per cent to 2.5 percent in 2021,” he added.

He, however, appealed to the President to give assent to the Finance Bill 2023, which accommodated increase of the EDT collection to 3 per cent, noting that it would serve as a parting gift to the education sector from the Buhari-led administration.

In his remarks, the Permanent Secretary of Federal Ministry of Education, Mr. David Adejo implored beneficiary institutions to utilize the funds allocated to them judiciously, while commending the dedication of TETFund Management and staff to quality service delivery and purposeful intervention.

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