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5. CONCLUSION 
 
This article identified weak school administrators, lack of data to plan, inadequate funding, 
inadequate professional teachers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, institutions Corruption 
and insecurity as challenges preventing effective administration of education in Nigeria. To 
address the challenges preventing effective educational administration in Nigeria, the 
following have been recommended: appointment of competent head for educational 
institutions, increase the funding of education, provide adequate infrastructural facilities, 
fight institutional corruption, provide adequate security and generate reliable and creditable 
data for planning education. 
 
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