Shortage of Funds and Tertiary institutions Development in Nigeria
Keywords:
Academic staff, infrastructure facilities, Strike actions,, Tertiary institutions.Abstract
This paper examined the impact of shortage of funds on tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This study is a review paper. Depending on secondary data that were collected from online and print publications. The paper ascertained that shortage of funds in the Nigerian tertiary institutions is responsible for inadequate academic staff, inadequate infrastructure facilities and continuous strike actions by different union groups in the various institutions across the country. Based on this discovered, the paper recommended adequate funding of Nigerian tertiary institutions to enable tertiary institutions provide adequate infrastructure facilities and to employ adequate academic staff. Increment in the funding of tertiary institutions will help to reduce strike actions in the various institutions.
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