Nigeria, May 23 -- With just a week to the deadline set by the Minister of Education, only seven of 195 federal tertiary institutions in Nigeria have complied with a directive to publish their financial and institutional data, the Athena Centre for Policy and Leadership has revealed.

The centre, which partnered the Ministry of Education to monitor compliance of the institutions, has also created a live-tracker for members of the public to see which institutions have complied.

The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, had directed federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education to publish comprehensive data on students enrolment, grants, Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) including federal allocations by 31 May.

Mr Alausa e...