Thread by @MoghaluKingsley

It’s sad that education is only 5.6% of Nigeria’s 2021 budget of N13 trillion. I told Prime Business Africa’s event today on Funding Tertiary Education in Nigeria that we need a massive increase in financial investment in education but such increased funding must be targeted

at necessary REFORMS of the system, not just providing money that will be siphoned away by corrupt politicians and civil servants. In order to do so we must ask ourselves three basic questions: 1. Why are we funding education? 2. How are we funding? 3. What are we funding?

On 1, we must fund education far more because the strength or weakness of any country’s education system is simply the most important thing that determines whether the society advances or decays. The collapse of education in Nigeria is why millions of children are

out of school and Northern Nigeria now lives daily under the terrorists. Education shapes how citizens see the world, enables countries achieve national ambitions (e.g. China, South Korea), and takes people out of poverty because educated people make better choices.

The security situation and poverty in Northern Nigeria today relative to the rest of the country is because of lack of priority on education. Almajiri children are potential recruits to terrorist activities. On 2, we rely mainly on already inadequate government funding & tuition

but need to bring in more funding from the private sector, philanthropic endowments, earnings from innovation, research and development, and consultancies, alumni fundraising, student loans etc. On 3, we must fund the issues that are at the roots of the ASUU strikes that have

crippled public tertiary education such as manpower investment and development. We must fund curriculum reform, educational infrastructure , and pedagogy reform (How we learn - “cram and pour”! versus original thinking and research) etc. As President of Nigeria, education and

healthcare will be my priority focus. Not less than 20% of the budget will go it. Glad to hear the news that universities, not governments, will entrance score cut-offs for admission to universities. That’s a big leap in the direction of quality of education. Education Nigeria

needs more effective regulation, and address the core needs of Nigerian society which is economic based on technology and industrial skills, and political. I recommended a new course (mandatory), “Your Hustle: How to Succeed” ! Great discussion Marcel Mbamalu, @jahmanoladejo

@UtomiPat @SamAmadi , Dr. Mrs. Bunmi Oyinsan, Ambassador @Ejeviome , Dr. Abdullahi Bashir, Prof Charles Okeke, Prof. Abiodun Adeniyi, Dr. Bongo Adi, and others