Nigeria: Education - That Tertiary Board of Nothing

23 September 2012
opinion

Nigeria will reduce government agencies. Nigeria will do it in 2013, and it will cut recurrent expenditure in the process. Now Nigeria is creating another agency. Tertiary Education Board, this one is called. It will be an addition to the layers of boards and agencies that currently exist under the Education Ministry.

A panel recommends it. The president had commissioned the panel after the last round of crisis in the tertiary education sector. Now it has submitted its report. The board was its foremost recommendation. The president is for it, of course.

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