Loading ...THE Federal Government will spend $1.2 million (about N200 million) on 2010 Nigeria Education Data Survey (NEDS) to be carried out in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The chairman, National Population Commission (NPC), Chief Samui’la Makama, disclosed this, on Tuesday, at the signing of an agreement on NEDS and its inauguration at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
The agreement, which was between Research Triangle Institute International of the United States of America and the NPC, according to Chief Makama, came at a time Nigeria strived to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and overcome its educational challenges.
He said education data surveys were normally conducted immediately after the National Demographic Housing Survey (NDHS) so as to collect additional data on a subset of household survey in the NDHS.
The proposed NEDS, he said, was intended to collect additional information and to statistically link it with data from the 2008 NDHS to create a broader data set.
The representative of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Nigeria, Dr. Shandy Ojikutu, commended Nigeria for providing the opportunity to work with USAID, adding that the survey would provide the opportunity of knowing facts relating to education in the country.
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