Challenges Preventing Effective Planning of Education in Nigeria and the Ways Forward

This article discussed the challenges preventing effective planning of education in Nigeria. The article used secondary data which was sorted from print material and online publication. This article identified: inadequate funding of planning, inadequate educational planners, lack of data/information, lack of planning materials, political influence, political instability, policies instability, corruption, poor capacity development of educational planners and lack of Political will to support planning of education as the challenges preventing effective planning of education in Nigeria. To address the challenges preventing effective planning of education in Nigeria, the following were suggested: generation of creditable data/information, adequate funding, provision of planning materials, employment of more professional planners, and corruption control in the ministries of education, constant capacity development programme for educational planners and the government should ensure policy continuity, policies stability and the political officeholders should avoid influencing educational planners in the country.