The Federal Government of Nigeria has commenced a review of its foreign scholarship and bilateral education arrangements as it seeks to reduce unnecessary spending and channel more public resources into strengthening tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, said the government could no longer justify using scarce public funds to sponsor Nigerians to study courses overseas when equivalent programmes are already available in the country’s universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. Alausa explained that the review of overseas scholarship arrangements was driven by the need to develop domestic...