Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, says that poor management of funds has remain a major operational constraint in the country’s Education sector.
Adamu said this during the inauguration of the governing council of eight federal polytechnics and six colleges of Education in Abuja.
The Minister called on the Councils of the institutions to think outside the box to generate more revenues and enlist the support of philanthropic organisations.
According to him, “Poor management of funds remains major operational constraint in the sector. It is expected that the limited funds allocated by government should be judiciously utilised“.
He also stated that the limited funds allocated by government should be judiciously utilised as it was evident that government cannot provide all the funds required to run the Federal Polytechnics and Colleges of Education.
Adamu further stated that it was imperative that the governing councils know the limits of their powers and how best to avoid situations of conflict in discharging their duties.
The minister said it was however important for the Chief Executive to brief the Governing Councils regularly on all procurement, as it was done on all financial and other matters.
According to him, all Chairmen and members of the Governing Councils need to take due cognisance of this, as it had, in the past, led to unnecessary frictions between the Councils and Managements of some Polytechnics and Colleges of Education.
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