AN Israeli researcher, Dr. Joseph Shevel has attributed the low investment in education by Nigerian politicians to the fact that the sector takes a long time to mature, saying it was for that reason that the country’s politicians prefer to invest in areas that would assure them quick returns.
Shevel, who is the President of Galilee Institute, Israel and a member of Israeli Prime Minister’s committee on Social Policy, described education as the future for any nation because of its ripple effect on all sectors of human endeavour.
According to him, to be on the right path for development, a country’s budget for education must meet the basic international standard in line with the Dakar Recommendation, regretting that while the recommendation was that budget for education must not be less than 5% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, Nigeria’s budget for education has been hovering around 1.5%.
Shevel said the economic crisis facing Nigeria is an opportunity to go back to the basics, noting that the country’s problem is an interim situation that could be overcome with hard work and determination.
He said there was no reason for Nigeria to be among the world’s poorest nations going by the enormous resources she is endowed with and called on her leaders to realize that the key to improving the situation was by engaging in research and collaborating with renowned research institutes in the world to share ideas.
He said: “The rivers in Nigeria are enough for the country to have enough fish and for export. The land resources are enough to grow crops that can feed the whole of Africa. What is required is the will to do what is necessary.”



www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/why-nigerian-politicians-dont-invest-much-in-education-israeli-expert/

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madridguy:
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WTH are you typing.....

what can I say

Because they don't want you to be educated so their unborn children will continue to rule over you... Shikina

Na dem sabi

Nobody gives a damn!!! All their children are schooling abroad.

BECAUSE THEY'RE ADVOCATING FOR SHA.RIA.

90perc of Nigeria leaders are clueless

True

But I will also blame the universities who fail to developed things that has economic value which can be used to convince the government to invest more

What I am trying to say is that

If a government knows that if it invests 1 naira and in some years to come it will gain 3 naira, that government will be willing to invest more into education.

They don't invest in order not to provide good and standard education and power to the locals and the youth !!!