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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to order the probing of the alleged missing

Share The Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board (OyoSUBEB) has commenced the training of language teachers and non-formal education centre facilitators across the state, in partial fulfilment of the execution of Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA). The Executive Chairman, Oyo SUBEB, Dr Nureni Adeniran, said the programme was facilitated in conjunction with the World Bank and the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), for proper training of the facilitators for the task a...

Steering committee rolls out roadmap on alternate school programme for out-of-school children Steering committee rolls out roadmap on alternate school programme for out-of-school children Share The National Steering Committee on Alternate School Programme held its inaugural meeting, on Monday, as part of ongoing efforts aimed at addressing challenges facing out-of-school children in Nigeria. Members of the committee who met in Abuja mapped out strategies and action plan to address the challeng...

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The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, disclosed this during the inauguration ceremony of basic education projects at the Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State.

By Joseph Erunke THE National Steering Committee on Alternate School Programme held its inaugural meeting yesterday in Abuja. The meeting, according to a statement by Nneka Anibeze, Special Assistant to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, “set the ball rolling for mapping out strategies and an action plan to address the challenges of out-of-school children in Nigeria and to rapidly reduce the number by providing them with qual...

Share Gabadeen Wasiu Olugbenga is a professor of Educational Management and a Director of Quality Assurance, University of Abuja. He provides some community services in the area of basic education, and he is a member of the Technical Working Group of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). He speaks in this interview to CLEMENT IDOKO on the neglect of basic education, curriculum review and funding of the sector, among other issues. Excerpts:   Free education was introduced in Nigeria ...

After months of negotiation with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), who had embarked on a 9-month strike, the Nigerian Government recently reached an agreement with the union, hence ending the strike. ASUU embarked on the strike action in March 2020, following its disagreement with the Federal Government over the funding of the universities and implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), which according to the union, negates the autonomy poli...

By Kuni Tyessi The federal government has announced the conclusion of its plans to build state-of-the-art digital schools and facilities for learning across the country. The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, disclosed this during the commissioning of Basic Education projects at the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State. In a statement signed by its Head of Communications, Mr. David Apeh, the executive secretary added that a digital resou...

FG to build digital schools in Nigeria ― UBEC Boss FG to build digital schools in Nigeria ― UBEC Boss Share The Federal Government through the Universal Basic Education Commission is to build digital schools across the country. Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, at the commissioning ceremony of some Basic Education projects at the Federal University Dutse, Jigawa State, saying this was in a bid to actualise the Commission’s vision of a robust digital basic education delivery ...