President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to urgently convene a summit on education to address problems of funding in the sector.
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, disclosed this while declaring open the Official Session of the 63rd National Council on Education (NCE) in Abuja.
The President, according to a statement issued by the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Willie Bassey, on Monday in Abuja, described education as a tool for national development and said its funding was important for sustainable development.
Echono said the President urged the ministry to convene a national summit to explore different funding models for education.
The statement said the three tiers of government – federal, state and local government – would be mobilized to efficiently support the funding of education in the country.
The President said no government could single-handedly fund education and therefore called on stakeholders to join hands with the Federal Government to reduce the population of out-of-school children in the country.
