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TODAY Pool Photo The Chairman of the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Femi Akinwumi, yesterday disclosed that the state government had paid the sum of N7.3 billion as counterpart funding to Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for the execution of projects in public primary and secondary schools in the last two years. The chairman made the disclosure in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, while briefing journalists on the activities of the body and its strides to im...

Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti The Chairman of the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof. Femi Akinwumi, yesterday disclosed that the state government had paid the sum of N7.3 billion as counterpart funding to Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for the execution of projects in public primary and secondary schools in the last two years. The chairman made the disclosure in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, while briefing journalists on the activities of the body and its strid...

By Rabiu Sani-Ali Kano, Jan. 2, 2021 Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau (APC – Kano Central), on Saturday, inspected health and education development projects being executed by the Federal Government in his Senatorial zone. Shekarau, a former governor of Kano State between 2003 and 2011, said he was inspecting both completed and ongoing projects in Dala, Dawakin Kudu, Nasarawa, Kano Municaipal and Warawa Local Government Areas of the state. Naija247news reports that some of the inspected projects includ...

Last week, the National Assembly passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill presented to it by President Muhamnadu Buhari in October, making it the second budget to pass the January to December cycle since the Buhari administration reverted to the old practice. Udora Orizu writes The Budget Presentation In a bid to maintain the January-December budget cycle, President Muhammadu Buhari had on Thursday, October 8, presented N13.8 trillion 2021 Appropriation Bill to the joint session of the National Assem...

Share THE Niger State Commissioner for Education, Hajiya Hannatu Jibrin Salihu, has appealed to development partners to support the state government in addressing some of the enormous challenges bedeviling the education sector in the state. Salihu said this during the national dissemination and the launching of the 2020 Nigeria Education Data Survey (NEDS) report organised by the National Population Commission (NPC), in Minna, the state capital. She noted that the launching of the 2020 NEDS rep...

Share KANO State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, stoked controversy recently when he averred that most of the Almajirai roaming the streets in the northern part of the country were not Nigerians. Declaring open a three-day retreat organised by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) with the theme Enhancing Basic Education in Nigeria towards a Robust Institutional Strengthening and Effective Stakeholder Engagement in Kano, Ganduje said: “A lot of them are foreigners from Niger Republ...

By Olawale Ajimotokan The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has revealed that junior secondary school students in the territory who sat for the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) had a 76.8 per cent success rate. The acting Director, Administration and Finance of the FCT Education Secretariat, Mallam Leramoh Abdul Razak disclosed this at the secretariat’s 2020 annual media luncheon. BECE is the main examination to qualify students for admission into secondary and vocational sch...

Dec 22, 2020 From left, Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, presenting Labour Laws to the Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of the USA, Kathleen FitzGibbon and USA Labour Attache, Carolyn Parker, during a courtesy visit to the Ministry. Share THE Federal Government has commenced plans to review the labour laws to make them contemporaneous with what obtains globally and in line with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Minister of Labour and Employment Sen...

Share KUNLE ODEREMI examines steady efforts at opening up Ekiti State for transformation by the administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi in the face of harsh socio-economic realities prevalent across the country. PENETRATING the skyline of Ibadan is the imposing 25-storey Cocoa House completed in 1965. Previously called Farmers’ House, the amazing structure is among the enduring and timeless legacies of the first generation of politicians that managed the resources of Yoruba land in the First...