Education in Nigeria, Past and Present: Information Communication Technology for Sustainable Development

Abstract

Education is the key to a nation's development and it is a major indication for the social well being, standard of living and social justice in a society. In Nigeria, the rapid development of ICT has greatly influenced the delivery of education just as the education sector is reacting to the emergence of the information society. Today's education system faces the challenge to prepare individuals for the information society .One of the most important aims should be to handle information since the prevalence and rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education can transform the society. This paper is an expository one that
examined education in the first republic, Universal Primary Education and Universal Basic Education and ICT for sustainable development. It was therefore concluded that since education is important, those at the apex of leadership should be more focussed since we learn from the past to improve on the present and project into the future. Recommendations were made on how to make education more productive and fruitful through ICT, among which are; provision of: ICTs in schools, stable power and enabling environment for teachers.