Nigeria: How Corruption Weakens Education Sector - EFCC

8 September 2009

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday gave insight into how corruption in the nation's educational sector had weakened the sector, leading to low efficiency, wastage and misappropriation of resources, low quality service delivery.

Head, Strategy and Reorientation Unit of EFCC, Mr. Gabriel Aduda, who spoke at the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) Chapter's maiden International Conference on "Corruption in the Academia and the State of Education in Africa, noted that the ills were classified into different levels of occurrence such as policy level, Ministry/state and local government level, schools and administrative levels, in which various forms of corruption are existing.

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