Niger SUBEB expends over N6.6b in six years

The Niger State Universal Basic Education on Wednesday disclosed that it received and expended N6,662,054,407:11k in six years.
This was as the NSUBEB said the expenditure was between 2013 and 2018 for interventions in Basic Education and Junior Secondary School across the state.
While addressing journalists at the press gallery of the Government House, Minna, the Chairman, NSUBEB, Alhaji Alhassan Muhammad Bawa, said since 2015, the Board has trained over 16,000 teachers.
Bawa said: “We are going to give employment letters to 2,500 teachers and they will resume work next month (November).
“We have scaled up intervention in the educational sector with our development partners.
“For now, the total number of enrollment to primary schools is 721,977, with 21,767 teachers in the state, while, 3,989 teachers will take care of 193,304 junior secondary school students.”
Furthermore, the chairman, who lamented the standard of education in the state, revealed that some of the teachers, who are mostly NCE holders, cannot compete with Grade 2 holders.