Education

Administrative bottlenecks, late payments to vendors and suppliers, and paucity of funds, remain a thorny issue in the largely successful free school feeding programme.
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This is the fifth in a six-part series by CLETUS UKPONG on how corruption, poor budget planning and implementation, and outright neglect led to the near-collapse of public education in Akwa Ibom, one of Nigeria’s richest states.
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In spite of the  Imo state government's policy aimed at promoting free and qualitative education statewide, several schools in Owerri, the capital city, still lack basic amenities that make learning convenient. ABBA AMOS, who visited one of…
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This is the fourth in a six-part series by CLETUS UKPONG on how corruption, poor budget planning and implementation, and outright neglect led to the near collapse of public education in Akwa Ibom, one of Nigeria’s richest states. APART…
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This is the third in a six-part series by CLETUS UKPONG on how corruption, poor planning, shoddy policy implementation, and outright neglect led to the near-collapse of public education in Akwa Ibom, one of Nigeria’s richest states. …
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EDUCATION in Nigeria, from primary to tertiary, has for a long time suffered neglect. Budgetary allocations to the sector have been abysmal for decades ― compared to what operates in other countries, and the infrastructural needs of…
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This is the second in a six-part series on how corruption, poor budget planning and implementation, and outright neglect led to the near collapse of public education in Akwa Ibom, one of Nigeria’s richest states. This investigation…
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By Cletus Ukpong IT has just finished raining and it is cold this Tuesday morning in July 2017. This reporter is visiting the Annang Peoples Primary School, Ikot Iyire, Abak, in oil-rich Akwa Ibom State. Three pupils between the ages of…
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EVIDENCE has shown that when parents are specifically empowered to send girls to school, they gain an advantage over boys. Consequently, boys become envious, frustrated and eventually withdraw from school. Between 2014 and 2016,…
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Nigeria has always been famous for her huge population - the seventh largest in the world - and for her  huge number of out-of-school children ― the largest in the world.  Therefore, former president Goodluck Jonathan established…
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