Showing posts with label government spending. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government spending. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2009

Restructuring Nigeria's Education Sector


The Nigerian Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Egwu, has just officially presented his four-point agenda aimed towards restructuring the public education sector of Nigeria. The four points of the agenda are access, quality assurance, vocation, and technical education and funding. Egwu has hinted that he will soon make changes within the staff in the current ministry. He also pointed out that while they had done a good job, the ministry is still very "cumbersome".




This article relates to the social challenges that Nigeria is facing today. Their educational system was subpar, and the ministry is trying to purge itself in order to improve it's system. This reform encouraged by the government will soon have an effect on every citizen of the country.


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Monday, March 2, 2009

Govt to upgrade seven specialist hospitals


The Federal Government has decided to upgrade seven speacialist hospitals across the country in order to advance their health care programs. They hope to provide advanced health services to Nigerians which will stop many Nigerians from traveling abroad for medical attention. The minister of Health, Dr. Aliyu Idi Hong pointed out the priority of upgrading the nations hospitals in Nigeria's 2009 fiscal budget. The main goal will be to provide more facilities and to retrain the medical personnel that they already have.



This article reveals Nigeria's strive to become a more modernized and healthy power. But it also reveals the difficulties that the nation has been having with it's health care system. Nevertheless, they are making all the necessary decisions in order to improve their health systems.
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