The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has promised to bring reforms to Nigeria’s education sector from the basic to the tertiary level.
Mr Tinubu said his administration, if elected, would review the education curriculum at all levels “to suit the emerging global best practices and current socio-economic realities.”
During his presentation at an interactive session with the Arewa Joint Committee (AJC) at the Arewa House in Kaduna on Monday, Mr Tinubu said the curricula would be reviewed to ensure that Nigerian graduates become conversant with global trends in different fields and sectors where they can contribute productively to the country’s economy.
“This will ensure, our graduates at tertiary level are not only trained for white-collar jobs, but they will be enterprising and innovative,” he said.
Despite the government saying it has spent over N6 trillion on education in the last six years, the challenges facing the…
