2013 Education Sector Budget Analysis

By Esther AgbonActionAid

Education Funding in Nigeria

• All three tiers of the state (federal, State and local government) play a role in the provision of education.

• National Commission for Mass Literacy and Commission for Nomadic Education takes responsibility for Adult, Non formal and Nomadic education respectively

• Their budget lies with the Federal Government

Funding Trend in Education Sector• The sector budget has been increasing

nominally since 2009• N426.53 billion for the Education sector in the

2013 budget is commendable

0.00%

2.00%

4.00%

6.00%

8.00%

10.00%

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Trend in budget allocation to Education

Education

Recurrent Vs Capital

%Capital14%

% of Recurrent86%

2013 Education budget

However only a paltry 14% will be spent on Capital

HQ vs DAs that affect inclusivity and equalityMDA Recurrent Capital Total

NomadicCommission

411527749 448591039 860118788

Education R &D 1401817763 475000000 1876817763

Mass Literacy 98178620 100000000 944950207

Computer RegCouncil

214860159 0 214860159

***Main Ministry4,441,353,467 7,227,055,000 11,668,408,467

DAs responsible for socially disadvantaged group get tiny portion allocated to them, budget is not people centre

Findings:

Computer Reg. Council - Zero Capital Budget

• For important functions such as standardising computerization of primary, secondary and tertiary institutions

• The council gets Zero capital

• After paying salariesthey will go to sleep!

0

50,000,000

100,000,000

150,000,000

200,000,000

250,000,000

TOTAL RECURRENT

TOTAL CAPITAL

COMPUTER PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION COUNCIL OF NIGERIA

Main Ministry

MAIN MINI OF EDUC

7,227,055,000

1,103,870,000

CelebrationsCapital Anniversaries and Celebrations

15% of capital budget spent on Celebrations

Main min - Celebrations/anniversaries

• N 1,103,870,000 (1.1 billion naira) of its capital budget allocated to anniversaries and celebrations.

• This sum will build about 276 six block class rooms including toilet facilities and staff room at N4, 000,000 (four million naira )each!

Nomadic Education Commission

100,000,000

7,000,000

Celebrations

Proposes to spend N3.5m on women empowerment and nomadic girl child education and N7m on Celebrations

Bloated Unclear Allocation

• Virtually all the MDAs in the Education sector allocate huge sums for Refreshments, welfare packages, Honorarium/Sitting allowances

• Annual refreshment of over N10,000,000, the Main ministry will spend N29,000 daily on refreshment for 365 days of the year!

• This daily amount will kit 5 primary school children with sandals and uniforms.

Unclear/Misleading AllocationPURCHASE OF 20 VEHICLES FOR STATE OFFICES (WAIVER FROM THE PRESIDENCY)@ N6,500,000.00 X 20

N/C AMAC 130,000,000 How many state offices?The classification limits this expenditure to AMAC

ADVOCACY TO TRADITIONAL RULERS, COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL LEADERS IN SIX GEO-POLITICAL ZONES.

2,650,000 For what purpose?

Advocacy/sensitization Advertorials on NTA @N500,00/slot for 12 months

Nationwide 13,000,000 Do we need radio and TV adverts toactualise the transformationagenda?`

Funding of New Universities

0

500,000,000

1,000,000,000

1,500,000,000

2,000,000,000

2,500,000,000

OYE EKITI OTUOKE DUTSE NDUFU ALIKE LAFIA DUTSIN - MA KASHERE LOKOJA WUKARI

Allocations to New Federal Universities

Total Recurrent Total Capital

Poor funding for Universities

• With the terrible state of infrastructure on our campuses, no university in the federation received a capital vote of up to N500million Naira,

• the highest capital votes in the sector are allocated to the National Library and the Federal Ministry of Education (Main) with N6billion and N7.2billion respectively.

0

2,000,000,000

4,000,000,000

6,000,000,000

8,000,000,000

10,000,000,000

12,000,000,000

14,000,000,000

16,000,000,000

Total Recurrent Total Capital

Uniben Vs Main Ministry

UNIVERSITY OF BENIN

MAIN EDUC MIN

Funding of Universities

• With a population of about 40,000 or more full time students per university, the Education sector budget needs to free up funds from welfare packages, sitting allowances and International travels across the MDAs to fund universities properly.

• Revenues of Universities do not form part of the budget

Recommendations

• Allocations for celebrations are enormous and repeated throughout most MDAs, budget cuts could be made there to fund other Institutions ieComputer Professional Council with zero capital budget allocation.

•• Agencies should understand the import of

meeting the needs of the disadvantaged such as the Mass Literacy Commission and Nomadic Education and vote less on celebrations.

•

Recommendations• The Government should focus on getting all schools

and teachers IT compliant; this will help in transparency, record keeping and job creation.

• Welfare packages, honorarium/sitting allowances and refreshments are areas that can absorb budget cuts to free up money for capital projects

• MDAs including Universities should be made to account for their internally generated funds, such funds should then be properly budgeted for to ensure transparency and accountability in the system