Former Head of Interim Government, Ernest Shonekan has advocated the allocation of 25 per cent federal and state budgets to education. Shonekan said unless attention is paid to education the vision of becoming one of the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020 cannot become a reality. He said it can only be realised if conscious steps were taken now to reform and revitalise the educational system. He gave the suggestion at the opening of a two-day summit on education ...

Concerned by the continued decay of the educational sector in the country, the Senate plans to hold a national summit to find the way forward. Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Joy Emordi, who disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, said the two-day summit will hold next month. According to her, “The East Asian tigers that started off at about the same level with Nigeria about 50 years ago have developed not because of natural resources, but through well focused and well ...