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The federal government has released about N1.9 billion to the Niger State Government to boost the standard of education and literacy in the state.
By Laleye Dipo The federal government has released about N1.9 billion to the Niger State Government to boost the standard of education and literacy in the state. The Minister of State for Education Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba, who disclosed this in Minna on Tuesday at the flag-off of the “Better Education Service Delivery For All” programme, said the state government will account for the money before it can access future grants. He said the state was selected to benefit from the grant because of “the number of out-of-school children in the state”. Stressing that the programme is a bold s...
Share Biola Azeez takes a cursory look at the impact and effect of the ratio nine for women to seven for men in membership of the cabinet of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State that was dissolved recently. In his resolve to compensate women in Kwara State over their alleged lack of representation at the last general election in the state in which all the elective positions went to men, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in December 2020, surprised many when he appointed nine women as commissioners in his 17-member cabinet. The governor said that by the singular action, the state made ...
Odewumi For the education sector, year 2020 has been a challenging and turbulent one. The first inkling of what the year held for Nigerians manifested in the first quarter when the world woke up to the reality of the coronavirus pandemic that threatened everything the sector held dear. As part of measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Government, on March 23, closed schools and educational institutions nationwide. The closure, which lasted for more than six months, halted teaching and learning across the country; academic calendar took a hit and almost everything came to a ...