ROSE MBA IKYO
Department of Foundations and Management,
College of Education,
Katsina-Ala, Benue State.
e-mail: [email protected]
DORCAS ADE YAJIR
Department of Psychology,
College of Education,
Katsina-Ala, Benue State.
ABSTRACT
It is hardly debatable that implementation is the bane of public policies and programmes in Nigeria. A well formulated policy or programme is useless, if not properly implemented as its stated objectives will not be realised. The Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme was introduced in Nigeria in September 1999 by the Obasanjo administration. Twenty-one years after inception, the programme is still bedeviled by a number of implementation problems. This paper examines some of the major constraints impeding the effective implementation of the UBE programme in Nigeria. The paper then suggests some courses of action, to facilitate the successful implementation of the programme. Secondary sources of data collection with personal experience of the writer were called to bear on the findings of this paper.
Keywords: Basic Education, Implementation, Nigeria Policy, Programme, Universal Basic Education.