ADMINISTRATION ECONOMICS PROGRAMME IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES: PROBLEM AND SUGGESTION

Abstract

The article discussed the problems facing the administration of Economics programme in Nigerian higher institutions. Secondary data was used to support the points raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from print material and online publication by recognized institutions and individual author. The article identified inadequate funding of Economics programme, inadequate Economics lecturers, and shortage of infrastructural facilities in Economics, institutional corruption, unstable academic calendar, poor staff development and brain-drain as the challenges facing the administration of Economics programme in the Nigerian higher institutions. To solve these challenges, hence, this article recommends: that the government should increase the funding of Economics programme, employ more lecturers, provide more infrastructural facilities in the Economics department, ensure stable academic calendar and fight all institutional corruption in the university system.