REDUCING THE RISING THREATS TO EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS
Abstract
Education involves series of instructions and discipline which are intended to entrench development in an individual or a people to make them fit to serve their generation as positive agent of political, cultural, social, economic, technological, moral and spiritual transformations. By providing, effective and technical foundation and capacities to the society both at the basic and higher levels of learning. Education serves as the backbone for securing and advancing individual and national development and values. Unfortunately, there is an increasing threat to the educational development of our nation both at the individual and national levels. This work therefore is an attempt to identify the various dimensions of these threats and the roles religious leaders should play in addressing them. The study involved a survey approach and used content analysis technique in data analysis.
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