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Published 11 March 2021
The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, says over N41.06bn UBEC matching grants is lying unaccessed despite the poor state of many primary schools across the country.
Bobboyi disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday while presenting the 2020 Capital Budget Performance to the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education.
Giving a breakdown of matching grant implementation by states since 2017, he said while 32 states and the FCT implemented the 2017 projects, four states had yet to do that.
The executive secretary listed the four states as Anambra, Imo, Kaduna and Kwara.
He also said that 30 states and the FCT implemented matching grants projects in 2018, but six states – Anambra, Imo, Kaduna, Kwara, Ogun and Plateau – had yet to implement them.