Abstract:
The paper rethinking strategies and principles for financial management of public primary schools
provided some of the relevant definitions such as finance, financial management and budget
among others. The paper examined the brief history of financing primary education in Nigeria.
The paper also enumerate and discuss the strategies for financial management of public primary
schools such as UBE building, alternative models, adoption of modern management techniques
and primary school management among others. The paper highlighted some of the problems face
for financial management of primary schools in Nigeria such as absence of competent and
qualified personnel, inadequate funding of primary schools, lack of constant and regular
supervision of financial resource in schools among others. The remedies is also be able to
identified in the paper among others includes, adequate school funding, provision of competent
and qualified personnel and constant and regular supervision of school financial resources
