Education experts in Ibadan on Monday urged governments at all levels to adequately fund the education sector to promote peace and development.

The experts spoke at a symposium to mark the 2022 edition of the World Education Day in Ibadan.
The education experts who were mainly from the Institute of Education, University of Ibadan, described education as the key driver of sustainable peace and development.
Education Prof. Clement Kolawole said that education played the dual role of promoting peace and development in every society.
He expressed the need for young men and women to acquire quality primary education, saying ”education can enthrone development and guarantee its sustainability.”
”For the nation to enjoy the dividends of education, it should invest meaningfully in quality education for its citizenry.
”The nation is unable to grow according to projections because its leadership has not given education the right place on its priority list,” he said.
Also speaking at the event, Prof. Rashid Aderinoye, an expert in Adult and Mass Literacy Education, said that special attention should be given to basic education.
”The basic education system is under-funded; this has made our children not to be well-informed and enlightened.
”It is also saddening that the funds made available for this purpose through consolidated revenue have not been properly utilised,” he said.
In her speech, Prof. Esther Oduolowu, urged stakeholders to evolve ways of collaborating toward promoting quality education in a post COVID-19 era.
”We have to move on, we must devise the means to keep enhancing knowledge even with the challenges that came with the outbreak of COVID-19,” she said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme for the 2022 edition of the World Education Day is: ”Changing Course, Transforming Education”.