Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has declared that the federal government will no longer spend scarce public resources on what it considers unproductive foreign scholarship programmes.
August 26, 2026
•Dr Tunji Alausa, Minister of Education
By Joseph Erunke, Abuja
Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has declared that the federal government will no longer spend scarce public resources on what it considers unproductive foreign scholarship programmes.
This came as he revealed that Nigeria once spent N650 million on just 150 students sent to Morocco under the Bilateral Education Agreement, BEA.
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