Educational Policies of Primary School Education in Nigeria: Challenges Preventing the implementation and the Ways Forward

This paper discussed the challenges preventing the implementation of primary school education policies in Nigeria. To elicit information, this study used secondary sources of data by review existing documents such asprint materials, online journal and articles. This paper identified inadequate funding, inadequate infrastructural facilities, inadequate professional teachers, corruption, lack of political will, insecurity challenge, political instability, poor governance and management, rapid growth of the Nation‟s population and rising cost of education as the challenges preventing effective implementation of primary school education policies in Nigeria.To address these challenges, the paper recommend that the government should increase the funding of secondary school education in Nigeria.