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ABSTRACT

Functional educational management system is an important vehicle to improve the quiddity and essence of effective leadership in the human society. Consequently, the revitalization and strengthening of an excellent and functional educational management is a vigorous means for the advancement of standard education in a country, which in turn, brings about effective and learned leadership, through which the activities and affairs of a country are well helmed. In our world today, there are many issues that require urgent attention for the improvement of effective leadership. One of such requirements is the quest for a functional educational management system. Educational management system is a process of acquiring and allocating resources for the achievement of predetermined educational goals in order to adequately effect changes in learners and to build future learned leaders. Without a functional educational management system, there can be no such goal of effective leadership. This paper highlighted the concepts of functional educational management system and effective leadership. It posits by a way of conclusion that the absence of a functional educational management system, which involves educational planning for smooth running of educational activities will always result to the production of incompetence, a great vice that can ruin the various leadership sectors of a country. Thus, attention to functional educational management is recommended at all levels of education from the local, state and national levels.