The Police in Kaduna State said Dr Abubakar Mohammad, Chairman, Universal Basic Education Commission, and his daughter, Yasmin, regained freedom unhurt from kidnappers on Tuesday’s afternoon.
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Armed men have reportedly blocked the Kaduna-Abuja highway, opened fire on some vehicles and abducted two people.
The Universal Basic Education Commission has approved the sum of N2.7 billion for the construction of 5,010 classrooms across the country.
The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, says his administration has paid N3.3 billion as the State’s counterpart funding for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Universal Basic Education Commission intervention projects.
The Federal Government has directed Universal Basic Education Commission’s to allocate two per cent of its operational funds to Quality Assurance.
A five-man panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto and presided over by Justice Hannatu Sankey has sentenced the Chairman of the Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board, Murtala Adamu Jengebe, to a cumulative jail term of 41 years.
The Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, said on Monday that Federal Government was committed to sustain funding of basic education in the country.
The minister said the funding would be channeled through the Universal Basic Education Commission to support states in the discharge of their basic education obligations.
The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, has said that the Federal Government would pay N71.29 billion directly to the commission being the outstanding counterpart funds.
Dr Hamid Bobboyi, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, gave the commendation during a visit of the management of the commission to Lagos SUBEB in Maryland, Lagos.
Adamu made this known in Kaduna on Wednesday at the opening of a two-day Northern Nigeria Traditional Leaders Conference on Out-of-School Children.
The former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has faulted the implementation of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) programme, saying that contrary to the manner of its implementation that it was actually supposed to benefit all the pupils in the country, including those that attend private schools.
Chiedu Ebie, the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, disclosed this in Asaba at the 2018 Ministerial Press Briefing organised by the Ministry of Information.
In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, the governor also said a Parents’ Summit would soon be held in the state to further sensitise parents on their roles in the provision of quality education for their children
Less than twenty-four hours to the conduct of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s governorship primary in Adamawa State; some supporters of former EFCC boss Mallam Nuhu Ribadu have opened talks with Dr Ahmed Mohammed Modibbo’s camp.
A former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and seven other aspirants have withdrawn from the Peoples Democratic Party’s Adamawa governorship bye-election primary holding on Saturday.
At the last count, Adamawa’s affairs had been piloted by ten different administrations headed either by military administrators or elected governors. Yet, there’s is little or nothing to show for it
This information was contained in a statement signed by Sam Nwaobasi, the Special Assistant (Media) to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, in Abuja on Thursday
Eze said: “This recruitment is government’s intervention programme to solve the problem of inadequate teachers in some primary and secondary schools in the country
“What I will like to see basic education to do is to advertise state by state, those states that have failed to take their children to school, we need to know them