They have been paying us incomplete salary for almost a year now; since December 2015 till date. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had presented a budget proposal of N10.33 trillion before a joint session of the National Assembly last Tuesday. Forgotten Dairies Technical Feedback: whatsapp 08023469027 The least in Africa. “We are still studying the budget. However, of this amount, only about N50 billion is earmarked for capital expenditure while the rest will be gulped by recurrent expenditure. While this budget is for the federal level alone, it is still less than adequate for the essential development needed in the sector. The sums are meant to adequately cater for the 28 parastatals as well as 37 federal universities, 25 federal polytechnics, 21 federal colleges of education and 104 federal unity schools directly under its care. Of the N671.07 billion allocated to the Federal Ministry of Education, the sum includes the statutory transfer allocated to the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), which is N111.79bn. Many of us are being paid between 40-80 percent of our salaries. He said: ‘’The amount allocated to education is grossly inadequate, if we consider the decayed infrastructure and back log of personnel claims in the form of Allowances, arrears of salary shortfall, unfunded promotion exercises and arrears of CONTISS 15 that is about N20b.’’He pointed out that other debt hanging on the neck of the Federal Government  was the NEEDS Assessment implementation.” He said: ‘’The NEEDS Assessment which is yet to be implemented will gulp about N652,591,641m. UBEC intervention funds are focused on collaborating with other state actors towards improving access to basic education and reducing Nigeria’s over 10.1 million out-of-school children. LAST week Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari released the 2017 budget of N7.298t with the Ministry of Education expected to gulp N398.01b in recurrent expenditure. A Nigerian newspaper and Online version of the Vanguard, a daily publication in Nigeria covering Nigeria news, Niger delta, general national news, politics, business, energy, sports, entertainment, fashion,lifestyle human interest stories, etc, ***Says, lecturers being paid half salary since Dec 2015 In all, it appears lower than the recommendations by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Bamidele Williams, a Journalist, writes from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site. Approximately, these are in billions of naira. On the whole, ASUU is expecting N619bn from the government which is higher than the education budget (N540.01) of 2017. Check your inbox now to confirm your subscription. LAST week Wednesday, President Muhammadu Buhari released the 2017 budget of N7.298t with the Ministry of Education expected to gulp N398.01b in recurrent expenditure. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. He has proven competence in journalism, teaching, and writing. Compared with all these, the 2020 education budget is higher than others in sum but lower in percentage to the entire estimate. To achieve this however, there must be a change in the attitude of Nigerians towards giving for educational purposes. According to the Compulsory, Free Universal Basic Education Act of 2004, the basic education funds are drawn from 2% of the consolidated revenue of the country from a previous year. This year JAMB students population of 1,736,571 again reveals it. Also, N556.7 billion will be statutory transfers to specific government agencies while N2.75 trillion would go into debt servicing. The development had since generated reactions from concerned stakeholders, saying that the amount allocated to education was too small due to enormous problems bedevilling the sector. Opinion Nigeria. And Education as the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. We are trying to do our analysis of the budget. The advances of humanity and continuous possibility splatter knowledge of the capability of smartness. Leaving majority of the existing universities, especially the relatively cheap public ones to absorb the huge number of students graduating from secondary school. Within the total estimates, the ministry would be getting N490.2 billion for recurrent expenditure and N50.95 billion for capital expenditure. Our government no longer need a lecture on the importance of education. The inept, incompetent and the dishonest use of the little given out by the government by the various university management is another bane. In 2016,  the education sector which got N369.6bn from a total national budget of N6.07t was described as still the lowest since 2012. Also, N13.63 billion would go into universities pension including arrears just as professors would be getting N4.5 billion from the benefits allocated to retired senior personnel such as heads of service and permanent secretaries. We will respond comprehensively at the appropriate time. Dregs of Jamb…Human Capital Developers -By Oluwamayowa Lala, Nigeria’s Biggest Airport – All You Need To Know About MMIA -By Jogbojogbo Abdulrahman. I don’t think what the allocation can do with respect to all of these put together apart from Capital Recurrent Expenditure that they captured in the 2017 budget.”. This is just as the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) is also being owed  N20.8 billion arrears.Reacting to the education budget, ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi in a telephone conversation with Vanguard described the budgetary allocation of N398.01bn  as a betrayal of trust, adding that ASUU is still in shock and still studying the budget.He said: “ASUU still finds it difficult to believe that education budget for 2017 is N398.01bn. Connect with us. The percentage of the education budget when compared with the budget sizes in 2017 and 2018 (both proposed and approved) are 7.41%, 7.03% and 7.14% respectively. And that is the reason they all send their children to best schools abroad while the ones at home are reduced to pauperism and a state of destitution. With the Nigerian students continuing to suffocate for basic needs in congestion.

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