Minister finally admits what we all know about education funding

Minister of Education Tunji Alausa just dropped some painful truths at OAU's 65th anniversary. He said federal allocations to education have been stuck between 5% and 8% when UNESCO says we need 15-20%. So our labs dey empty, libraries can't afford modern journals, and infrastructure dey rot.

But the part that hit me hardest was when he said over 2 million qualified candidates apply for less than 500,000 university spaces every year. Two million people. That is not a gap, that is a canyon. And our best lecturers and brightest graduates dey flee to Europe and America like their lives depend on it. Alausa called it a hemorrhage of talent, and he is not wrong.

Meanwhile Nigeria spends less than 0.2% of GDP on research and development. Israel spends 4%, South Korea nearly 5%. Oya tell me, how we go fit compete in anything when we refuse to invest in the people who suppose build the future?