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Advertisement According to NAN, the governor disclosed this in Kano on Tuesday during the activities marking the state’s education day. He said the grants will enhance the free education and almajiri integration policy of the state, adding that the policy will not be achieved without adequate funding. “We are providing cheques to schools for daily maintenance. We are providing tablet computers to education officers across the 44 LGAs for data generation, analysis management and transferred...

Mr. Nurudeen Lawal, the Chief of Party USAID Northern Education Initiative spoke to Funmi Ogundare and explained the various strategies used and how the agency had partnered with different stakeholders at the state and federal levels in the last five years. The objective is to provide basic literacy opportunities to out-of-school children especially in Sokoto and Bauchi States, to enable them find their feet, among other issues. Excerpts: USAID is implementing the Early Grade Reading across Nig...

The Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC has said the Better Education Service Delivery for All” (BESDA) initiative will not thrive except there is the active participation of UBE Information Managers in the process. The assertion is contained in a press statement signed by the Commissions Head Public Relation and Protocol, David Apeh. The Deputy Executive Secretary (Services), Dr. Isiaka Kolawale Olayinka in the statement said Information Communication was the key strategy needed to en...

In her opening remark at the event,the  Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development,, Sadiya Umar Farouq, expressed joy that,”This third meeting is representative of the extent of work that the National Steering Committee has done thus far, as we have finally reached the stage where programme implementation can commence.” “We believe that your participation and contribution will be invaluable to the success of the Alternate School Programme,”the ministe...

Advertisement Winners have emerged in the seventh Lafarge Africa National Essay Competition in Nigeria with the theme ‘Building the Nigeria of my dreams’. The competition, open to pupils aged 9 –13 in public primary and secondary schools in the junior and intermediate categories opened for entries on the 04 December 2020 until the 15 January 2021. Sixteen hundred participants from all the thirty-six states in Nigeria, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, enrolled for the compe...

• Dialogue, mutual trust key to end strike in varsities Three years after critical stakeholders proposed emergency in the education sector to address problems confronting it, President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to implement the proposal. This, according to stakeholders is an indication that education is not a priority of the present administration. Education minister, Adamu Adamu had in 2018 set up a Presidential Committee on Ministerial Strategic Plan to come up with proposals that would ...

Sun Apr 04 2021 A former Nigeria’s Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, recently made claims in a post on his verified Facebook page in which he proffered solutions on how to help the present government salvage the economy. Daily Trust on Sunday verifies three of the claims made by the top politician: Claim 1: Nigeria has 13.5 million out-of-school children Claim 2: Nigeria is the third most terrorised nation on earth Claim 3: NLNG delivered $18.3bn dividends to government in 20 years (ending 202...

Vanguard News Don’t scrap UBE counterpart funding On Kindly Share This Story: LEFT to the governors of the 36 states, the counterpart funding arrangement for drawdown of the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, fund should be scrapped. This much was evident in the call by the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State when a delegation of the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education led by Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, visited him in...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti The House of Representatives has disclosed that all states of the federation are under obligation to access the Universal Basic Education Funds to provide basic education. The Chairman of the House Committee on Basic Education, Prof Julius Ihonvbere said this yesterday at a session with the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi in Ado Ekiti. Ihonvbere alongside members of the committee was in the state to carry out oversight functions. At the session with Fayemi, Ih...

Punch Newspapers Sections Friday Olokor, Abuja Friday Olokor, Abuja Published 12 March 2021 The 36 states in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory have not accessed N41.06 billion matching grant in the coffers of the Universal Basic Education Commission as of March 2021, its Executive Secretary, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has said. According to him, about N143 billion matching grant is accessed by states and FCT from 2017 to 2020, out of the N184.8 billion that was made available by the commissio...