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This article discussed the challenges facing planning of education in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. The article made used of secondary data which was sorted from print material and online publication. The article identified; inadequate planning funds, inadequate Educational Planners, lack of data/information to plan, lack of planning materials, political influence, political instability, institutional corruption, poor implementation of planed actions and poor capacity development of educational Planners as the challenges facing planning of education in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. To solve these problems facing educational planning in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the following was suggested: generation of creditable data/information for planning, adequate funding of educational planning, provision of planning materials, employment of more professional educational planner, ensure independent of educational Planners, fight institutional corruption, ensure policy continuity in Federal Capital Territory, and ensure constant training and retraining programme for Educational planners in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria.

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The article discussed the challenges facing the administration of science program in higher institutions in Nigeria. 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. There are many challenges facing the administration science programme in Nigerian higher institutions. Some of the challenges include; inadequate funding, inadequate lecturers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, brain-drain and strike actions. To solve this challenges, this article recommends the following: government should increase the funding of science programme in higher institutions, provide adequate infrastructural facilities, ensure stable academic programme employment of more science lecturers and motivation of lecturers to prevent brain-drain.

In September 1999, the UBE was officially launched and passed into law in 2004 as an implementation tool of the government initiative to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in achieving the EFA. Researchers has agreed that the Universal Primary Education (UPE) in Nigeria was also recognized as the predecessor of the present UBE Scheme, which has been directed towards the possibility of increasing the number of attendance or enrollment in schools, as well as the provision of an excellent opportunity to correct the current imbalance. The major objective and aim of the UBE programme is the provision of free, universal and compulsory basic education for every Nigerian child aged 6—15 years. However, for the Universal Basic Education programme to be truly free and universal, efforts must be made to check those factors that are known to have hindered the success of such programmes in the past. This paper thereore will consider the implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Nigeria -.its achievement, challenges and make some suggestion. The paper hereby made some recommendations that the government should provide adequate fund for the UBE programme.