Curriculum Implementation in Basic Education in Nigeria

This paper examined the challenges facing the implementation of curriculum in the Nigerian basic schools. Secondary data were adopted in the paper. The data were collected from published and unpublished articles. The paper identified poor funding, shortage of teachers, inadequate infrastructure facilities, and shortage of instructional materials, poor supervision, corruption, insecurity and poor capacity building programme as major challenges facing curriculum implementation in the Basic schools in Nigeria. In order to address this challenges, the paper suggested increment in funding of basic schools, employment of more teachers, provision of more infrastructure facilities and instructional materials, improvement in school supervision, capacity building programme of teachers, deployment of anti-corruption agencies to fight corruption in school administration and provision of adequate security in school through deployment of more security officers to schools.