Education, Accountability and Transparency Catalysts for Sustainable Development in Nigerian Society
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The paper examined education, accountability and transparency, as catalysts for sustainable development in the Nigerian Society. Education in this context is seen as a tool in ensuring accountability and transparency and also to attain sustainable development. It also paraphrased some key concepts such as; education, accountability, transparency and sustainable development. The theory of structural functionalism was adopted to offer credence to the paper. The paper also comments on the factors that hinder sustainable development in Nigeria such as; poor leadership, poor resource management, lack of accountability and public employees, weak governmental institutions, high cost of governance and also the strategies to improve transparency and accountability in education to achieve sustainable development. The paper therefore summarizes Education as a tool in ensuring transparency and accountability as it, instills in citizens, good moral behavior, norms, honesty, good attitude and so on towards work delivery, in order to achieve sustainable development in Nigeria.
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