Nigeria, May 16 -- The Minister of Education, Mr. Tunji Alausa, has revealed a concerning statistic: 85 percent of Nigerian students who are granted government scholarships to study abroad do not return to contribute to national development. Speaking during a recent engagement with educational leaders in Lagos, Alausa emphasized the need for a significant policy shift regarding scholarship funding.

"Many of the programmes they studied could have been handled effectively within our own institutions," Alausa stated, highlighting the government's renewed commitment to investing in local educational capacities rather than sending students overseas to study.

In conjunction with this policy shift, the Minister announced that tertiary institut...