Increase education expenditure and investment to 14% in the 2022 budget, a UK-based CSO tells Buhari.

A human rights organization known as Save the Children International Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to increase education allocation and investment to 14% by 2022 to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
SCI is a renowned child rights group with offices in over 120 countries throughout the world. It is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Mercy Gichuhi, SCI’s Country Director, made the call in a statement released on Monday evening, on the fourth International Day of Education.
She asked the government to promote “inclusive, equitable quality education that encourages continuous education opportunities for all” to achieve the SDGs.
“It needs the Nigerian government’s fulfillment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment made at the Global Education Summit (2021) to expand education financing to 14% by 2022, 16.7% by 2023, 20% by 2024, and 22.5 percent by 2025,” Gichuhi said. Education is, without a question, at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is a single act that is required to reduce disparities (Goal 10), break intergenerational poverty cycles (Goal 1), enhance health (Goal 3), promote gender equality, and eradicate child marriage (Goal 5). It is past time for the government and other stakeholders to prioritize education as a public benefit, to support it through collaboration, partnerships, and finance, and to ensure nothing is left behind in education.
she said a report on education in Borno State published by SCI in 2017 titled “Turning Education Around: Tackling the Problem in Borno State” found that the state’s violence was fuelled by an already existing educational crisis.
“Over the years, particularly in North-East Nigeria, schools have been unable to meet the high needs of out-of-school children due to a lack of necessary money, technical expertise, and facilities, resources, and teachers’ lives lost due to insurgency,” Gichuhi added.
The COVID-19 epidemic has exacerbated an already-existing education crisis, while increased reliance on digital technology for learning has exacerbated social marginalization and gender disparities. In northeast Nigeria, there are currently more children out of school than there were before the conflict.
“In some parts of Nigeria, schools lack the technical resources to assist physically challenged, marginalized, or minority pupils Across the board, the education sector continues to suffer funding issues. “Children make up a big share of the worldwide population and symbolize the society’s tomorrow.
The worst-case scenario is that a generation of children and young people will lack the skills necessary to participate in the twenty-first-century economy, or that half of humankind would be left behind. The cost of failing to provide the required skills to tomorrow’s leaders is a disaster.”
As a result, SCI recommends that technology be integrated into inclusive education that prioritizes the female child to ensure that no one is left behind in the race to 2030.
“We demand that teachers be recognized and given professional assistance so that they can innovate in the classroom,” the statement continued.