POLITICISATION OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Education is an instrument for national development. For several decades past governments in Nigeria have made unsuccessful efforts through several policies and the reshaping of institutional mechanism to revamp the education system. The current deterioration of the Nigerian education sector is a cog to national development. Several literatures on the education system attribute the deploring condition of the education sector to poor financing, poor policy formulation and implementation, and monitoring. This paper argues on the contrary that, the problem with the education sector in Nigeria is beyond the identified bottlenecks. The paper posits that inspite of the relationship between education and politics, the politicisation of the education sector based on primordial factors such as ethnicity, religion and godfatherism are rather responsible for the deploring condition of the education system in Nigeria, which has multiplier effect on national development. The paper submits that when the politicisation of the education sector along these primordial identities is discouraged and the trend reverted to meritocracy, then the nation will move in an oil-wheel towards national development
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