Journal of Administrative Sciences and Policy Studies

Planning: The Key to Institution Building in Nigeria Analysis of Universal Basic Education Delivery
Danjuma Abdullahi, Prof. Madya Dr. SitiAlida John Bt Abdullah

Abstract
Planning is one of the fundamental functions of management at the same time institution success depend on the proper planning and implementation of government policy and programme, since the launching of universal basic education in Nigeria there are a lot of outcries that the data for planning is not being utilized, as a result it create problems such as inadequate finance, poor management of the institution and lack of commitment of government to the achievement of aims and objectives of the UBE in Nigeria.The paper relied on interviews conducted with the stakeholders as well as newspapers, journals and annual reports of the organization in focus. Atlas ti 7 was used to analyse the data. The findings revealspoor data generation, poor coordination, lack of utilization of the data for planning and the paper recommends improve in data collection, commitment of government, effective coordination and making used of the data.

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