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Vanguard News USAID urges strict spending of education funds On As analysts advocate amendment to UBEC Act Allege officials violating UBEC’s free Act component Collecting money, selling books By Chris Ochayi The United States Agency International Development, USAID, has said that there was need for development partners to work together with the government at all levels and professional bodies as well as civil society organisations, CSOs, to ensure that donor resources for educational sector are spent wisely and transparently. The USAID spoke through its Education Advisor, Dr. Marcum Phelps...

Around 11,000 of the applicants have been shortlisted for computer-based testing. “From those that took the test, we would do a further review so that we can select the best 3,000 graduate teachers that will be hired amongst them. By the end of May, we ought to have shortlisted,” she said. “As you are aware, basic education extends to junior secondary school. We are trying to put in place the necessary tools that will make us roll this out. In line with that, we have the Edo Supporting Teachers to Achieve Result (STAR) teacher recruitment programme. On the curriculum to drive the teachi...

Vanguard News UNICEF, Niger Govt call for promotion of reading culture On Kindly Share This Story: The United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) in collaboration with Niger state Ministry of Education on Thursday called on Nigerians to promote reading culture in the society. They made the call at an event for students and education secretaries to commemorate World Book Day and disseminate of a report on the assessment of textbook availability in classrooms and schools in Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that World Book and Copyright Day is an annual event marked in over 100...

Share The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboi tasked the State Governments on the need to ensure accountability, improved literacy and provision of equitable access to basic education in the country. He spoke while declaring open a training on Communication Strategy for Public Relations Officers in UBEC, States Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEB) and Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) programme office held in Kano State. Bobboi who represented by the UBEC Deputy Executive Secretary (Technical) Dr. Bala Zakari, stressed on the...

Sunday Ehigiator The Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba has revealed plans by the federal government to launch a web application to be christened ‘Eye-Mark’, aimed at empowering Nigerians to report any poorly executed government projects to the government. He also disagreed with reports that the health and educational sectors of the economy were underfunded. The minister made this known recently, while speaking with THISDAY at a two-day National Assembly/Budget Office of the Federation of Nigeria (BOF) retreat holding in Lagos. According to him, the federal governm...