SUPERVISION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTION

Abstract

The article discusses the problems facing the supervision of the secondary school education in Nigeria. Secondary data was used to support the points raised in the article. Therefore, print materials and online publications by recognized institutions and individual authors were the secondary source of data collection. The article identified the following challenges; inadequate funding, shortage of professional supervisors, inadequate supervision materials, political instability, and policies instability, poor capacity development of supervisors, corruption, inadequate transportation facilities and insecurity problems. However, the paper recommended: that the government should increase the funding of instructional supervision of secondary schools, employ more professional supervisors, provide adequate supervisory materials, ensure constant training and retraining Programme for instructional supervisors, provide adequate transport facilities, fight all forms of corruption hindering effective supervision and ensure adequate security for supervisors on special supervision Programme across the country.