| Abstract: | This paper seeks to examine the reasons why the Central Government decided to take over the administration of schools in 1964 and the factors which complicated the realisation of its declared policy. The major political actors were the Central Government, the Catholic, Protestant and Muslim Missions which were also known as the Voluntary Agencies, and the Kabaka's Government, a federal Kindom which until 1967 had been given constitutional authority to administer primary education, senior education and teacher training colleges. Notes. |