Assessment Of Funding Of Adult Literacy Education Programme In Abia State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

Education remains an instrument per excellence for achieving rapid socioeconomic development of any nation. It is an instrument for achieving sustainable human and capital development, as it is also the bedrock of the sustainable development of Nigeria. Education provides the citizens of any nation with adequate skills for effective living and effective contribution to the development of her society. Education is the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, belief and habits for an effective functioning and productivity of the individual towards national development. For education to be an effective instrument for rapid development of the individual for in building a strong and vibrant economy of any nation, it must be one that is very functional and productive. In Nigeria today, functional and productive education is seen as the most likely means of getting to the top hierarchy in any endearvour.