Shortage of Infrastructural Facilities in Nigerian Public Primary Schools: Causes, Effects and Way Forward

Abstract

Public primary schools in Nigeria are faced with the problems of inadequate infrastructural facilities. This paper discussed the causes of shortage of infrastructural facilities in the Nigerian public primary schools. Published and unpublished documents were used to back up the various points raised in the paper. The documents were sourced from online and physical libraries. The paper identified some of the causes of shortage of infrastructural facilities to include: inadequate funding, corruption, poor maintenance culture, over-population, poor planning and lack of current data.  The paper also revealed that the negative effects of inadequate infrastructural facilities on public primary schools are poor implementation school curriculum, over-crowded, poor quality of teaching and poor quality of learning and teacher’s migration. Based on this finding, the paper recommended that the government should increase the funding of primary school education in Nigeria.