The document analyzes Nigeria's 2013 education sector budget, finding that while the budget has increased nominally in recent years, most funding goes to staff salaries and celebrations rather than capital projects, and agencies supporting disadvantaged groups receive inadequate funding. It recommends reducing allocations for celebrations and allowances to free up funds for improving infrastructure, equipping schools with IT, and properly funding universities.

1. 2013 Education Sector Budget
Analysis
By Esther Agbon
ActionAid

2. 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

3. 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
Trend in budget allocation to Education
10.00%
8.00%
6.00%
4.00% Education
2.00%
0.00%
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

4. Recurrent Vs Capital
However only a paltry 14% will be spent on
Capital
2013 Education budget
%Capital
14%
% of Recurrent
86%

5. Findings:
HQ vs DAs that affect inclusivity and equality
MDA Recurrent Capital Total
Nomadic 411527749 448591039 860118788
Commission
Education R &D 1401817763 475000000 1876817763
Mass Literacy 98178620 100000000 944950207
Computer Reg 214860159 0 214860159
Council
***Main Ministry
4,441,353,467 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

6. Computer Reg. Council - Zero Capital
Budget
• For important functions such as standardising
computerization of primary, secondary and
tertiary institutions COMPUTER PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
COUNCIL OF NIGERIA
• The council gets Zero 250,000,000
200,000,000
capital
150,000,000
• After paying salaries 100,000,000
they will go to sleep! 50,000,000
0
TOTAL TOTAL CAPITAL
RECURRENT

7. Main Ministry
15% of capital budget spent on Celebrations
Celebrations
Capital Anniversaries and Celebrations
7,227,055,000
1,103,870,000
MAIN MINI OF EDUC

8. 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!

9. Nomadic Education Commission
Celebrations
7,000,000
100,000,000
Proposes to spend N3.5m on women empowerment and
nomadic girl child education and N7m on Celebrations

10. 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.

11. Unclear/Misleading Allocation
PURCHASE OF 20 N/C AMAC 130,000,000 How many state
VEHICLES FOR STATE offices?
OFFICES (WAIVER The
FROM THE classification
PRESIDENCY)@ limits this
N6,500,000.00 X 20 expenditure to
AMAC
ADVOCACY TO 2,650,000 For what
TRADITIONAL RULERS, purpose?
COMMUNITY AND
POLITICAL LEADERS
IN SIX GEO-POLITICAL
ZONES.
Advocacy/sensitizati Nationwide 13,000,000 Do we need
on Advertorials on radio and
NTA @N500,00/slot TV adverts to
for 12 months actualise the
transformation
agenda?`

12. Funding of New Universities
Allocations to New Federal Universities
2,500,000,000
2,000,000,000
1,500,000,000
1,000,000,000
500,000,000
0
OYE EKITI OTUOKE DUTSE NDUFU ALIKE LAFIA DUTSIN - MA KASHERE LOKOJA WUKARI
Total Recurrent Total Capital

13. 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.

14. Uniben Vs Main Ministry
16,000,000,000
14,000,000,000
12,000,000,000
10,000,000,000
8,000,000,000 UNIVERSITY OF BENIN
MAIN EDUC MIN
6,000,000,000
4,000,000,000
2,000,000,000
0
Total Recurrent Total Capital

15. 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

16. Recommendations
• Allocations for celebrations are enormous and
repeated throughout most MDAs, budget cuts
could be made there to fund other Institutions ie
Computer 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.
•

17. 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