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ATTAMA, PAULINUS IK; EGWUMA SAMSON and IJEOMA UCHENNA C.

Published in 2022; Volume:XXII No: 1 Article Number: 3

The issue of corruption has been universally acknowledged as a drain on a country’s developmental efforts. Anticorruption reform hitherto has focused on political corruption. Administrative corruption which citizens have to contend with on a daily basis is only just beginning to attract attention. There have been various strategies, intensifying only recently, to stem the problem. Unfortunately, in most of these countries corruption has remained stable or deteriorated. In the Nigerian context, corruption has deep roots in the fabrics of the society, impacting virtually every aspect of the Nigerian economy. Scholars have highlighted the impeding impact on the technological, political, moral development of the country. In the educational sector, it causes infrastructural insufficiencies which leads to poor educational delivery and inaccessibility to education while impacting the empowerment of citizens within the society. This has left the citizens feeling frustrated, disgruntled and disenchanted and possibly inducing the rise in insurgency, kidnapping and militancy in the country. The study adopted Principal-Agent theory to explain the variables. There is the need to mitigate and tackle the growing trend of corruption in the educational sector because of impact on manpower and national development. The research makes a number of recommendations which include that; adoption of remote areas, adoption of PPP in education sector, training and retraining of manpower on ICT applications, change of mindset of civil servants in the use of ICT facilities, and provision of sufficient power supply. Also, an effective and reliable financial management system should be established to control and monitor the use of educational resources and supervision of programmes and projects embarked in the educational sector.

Administration, Education Sector, Corruption and Information and Communication Technology (ICT)