{"id":189287,"date":"2025-01-22T13:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-amidst-funding-challenges-nigerian-govt-establishes-new-polytechnic-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:54:48","slug":"nigeria-amidst-funding-challenges-nigerian-govt-establishes-new-polytechnic-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-amidst-funding-challenges-nigerian-govt-establishes-new-polytechnic-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Amidst Funding Challenges, Nigerian Govt Establishes New Polytechnic in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>Nigerian tertiary institutions, including polytechnics, have suffered years of underfunding by the government, often pitting workers&#8217; unions against the government<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Despite persistent funding challenges in Nigeria&#8217;s tertiary education sector, the federal government has approved the establishment of a new federal polytechnic in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, announced in a letter to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, that the new institution would be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501220294.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian tertiary institutions, including polytechnics, have suffered years of underfunding by the government, often pitting workers&#8217; unions against the government Despite persistent funding challenges in Nigeria&#8217;s tertiary education sector, the federal government has approved the establishment of a new federal polytechnic in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[347,258,256,6977,16472,6141,4357,257,4687,393,482,21989,254],"class_list":["post-189287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abuja","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-establishes","tag-funding","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-polytechnic","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}