By Caleb Ayansina

ABUJA – TRANSITION Monitoring Group (TMG) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to look into money allocated to the higher institutions of learning including their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), with a view to ensuring judicious use of educational resources in the country.

The group alleged that an unfathomable level of corruption is going on in the nation’s education system, as money given to them is not properly used.

The chairman of TMG, Com. Ibrahim Zikirullahi, who called for the probe in a press conference on the expectations of Nigerians from the Buhari’s administration, in Abuja, said there must be a standard education system for the nation to succeed. He said; “All the grants and allocations made to institutions of higher learning should be probed. The revenue generated from students, money collected from government is not properly used. There is fraud going on and it must be looked into.”

TMG insisted that the best way to improve the standard of education in Nigeria is to ensure that it is better funded. “The change of baton we all look forward to is one which the Nigerian people expect to thoroughly reverse the decay in the system.

“In education, we hope to see better funding and a mechanism to address the challenges confronting the sector. Nigeria is as good as the quality of the manpower which its educational institutions are able to produce,”Zikirullahi said.