Education gets N620.5bn against UNESCO’s advice


The executive summary of the proposals, according to The Punch check on Thursday in Abuja, showed that the education sector got N620.5bn (about 7.05 per cent), marginal raise over the total of N605.8bn budgeted for the sector in 2018.

Over some years, the country’s funding for education continued to rotate between five per cent, six per cent and seven per cent of the national budget.