Even before Obafemi Awolowo's democratization of
the Nigerian education space, by his revolutionary free primary education programme in the old Western Region; and Yakubu Gowon's liberalization of university access in the early 1970s, privileged and determined families had always sponsored theirs to study abroad.
Not exact matches
It said the board had resolved to give every
Nigerian child desirous of tertiary
education a level playing ground to compete for the available
space in these tertiary institutions.