The problems include inadequate funding and planning and management, inadequate infrastructure, irrelevance of curricula to industrial needs, and inadequate commitment on the part of students and teachers, among others. All these have combined to hinder the production of a high quality work force to propel the economy (UNESS for Nigeria: 2006–2015).
As Dike (2006) noted, the state of a nation’s educational sector, among other things, determines the economic health of the nation. BIS Review 166/2010  13  vi. The Dutch disease: Since the oil price boom of the early 1970s, the country abandoned the agricultural and industrial sectors of the economy to the old and weak.