The madness of foreign education

By Daily Trust. Last week, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) Senator Binta Masi Garba said this country spends over $2 billion annually to finance students’ education abroad. Some might see this as testimony to Nigerian parents’ love for education but it is more accurately a testimony to national waste, profligacy and misplacement of priorities. More...