Governor Seyi Makinde will commission at least six Model Schools, executed under the Universal Basic Education Commission-FG/Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board intervention Projects across the three senatorial districts of Oyo State as part of activities marking his 100 days in office.
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The Ekiti State government last week commenced school enrolment drive aimed at ensuring that all school-age children register for the forthcoming 2019/2020 academic session.
The Deputy Director of Moblilization, Universal Basic Education (Kano), Alhaji Bello Kagara, has commended the School Based Management Committee stating that the initiative will boost education in the country.
Chief Hyacinth Ikpo, the Ebonyi Universal Basic Education Board, chairman, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abakaliki, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
The Chairman, who stated this on Thursday in an interview with newsmen in Lafia, said that the money was part of the intervention for the second quota of 2016.
Bobboyi explained that President Muhammadu Buhari has deducted from Paris Club Refund all outstanding counterpart funds from defaulting states up to 2018 and paid to UBEC.
The Universal Basic Education Commission says it has introduced Cluster Community Learning Centres for out-of-school girls, as part of efforts to provide access to quality education for the girl child.
Dr Hamid Bobboyi, the Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, says Anambra, Edo, Ekiti, Nasarawa, Kano and the Federal Capital Territory are yet to access the Paris Club counterparts fund in full.
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, disclosed this at a one-day meeting to strengthen partnership within the three tiers of government on the Sustainable Development Goals 4 in Abuja on Thursday.
AbdulRazaq’s Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, said in the statement that the N232 million includes N100 million counterpart funds for Basic Healthcare Provision Funds, N50 million for Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria and N82 million to access global grants for malaria.
The approval came a few days after UBEC officials narrated how the previous administration had diverted the N1.5 billion 2013 funds allocated to Kwara State and how that had led to the official blacklisting of the state from UBEC.
The performance chart of the states released by UBEC and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin on Monday listed Jigawa as first having accessed 94 per cent of its fund.
The Kwara State Government on Sunday said the response of former Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed to the outrage greeting the alleged diversion of N1.5 billion Universal Basic Education Commission funds has raised more questions on the sordid neglect of public schools under him.
Kwara State Government has a total of N5, 385, 619, 303. 68 at the Universal Basic Education Commission not accessed since 2014.
The Universal Basic Education Commission says it will commence Open Schooling Programme across the 36 states of the federation by July, as part of strategy to reduce the number of Out-of-School children in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari says it is now a crime for parents to deny their children basic education in the country.
Force spokesman, Frank Mba, who briefed newsmen in Abuja, said the suspects were apprehended in different parts of the North Central and North West geopolitical zones
The Universal Basic Education Commission is set to adopt Open Schooling Programme as a strategy to reduce the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria.
Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, has called on governments at all levels to give priority attention to education.
The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has revealed that only 57 per cent of the nation’s basic education teachers are qualified.