Education

School kids sit on floor in Taraba as UBEC fails to deliver N65 million desks

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School children across six communities in Taraba state, continue to learn sitting on the floor as the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has failed to deliver N65 million desks being implemented under the Consolidated Capital Project. UBEC in the Consolidated Capital Project under the Economic Recovery Growth (ERG) got N65 million to deliver desks to […]

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MAWA Foundation calls for National Teachers Minimum Wage

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The Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation having carried out a study on teachers wages across the Nigerian state, which findings revealed teachers receive terrible wages, is calling on the Nigerian government to put in place a National Teacher Minimum Wage legislation to address the poor teachers welfare which is a core component of reform in

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Ogun School in deplorable condition as N12 million project remains abandoned

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Ogun community children continue to learn in a deplorable condition as N12 million classroom construction project remains abandoned. This is even as the Federal Government under the 2021 Zonal Intervention Project (ZIP) approved the sum of N12 million for the construction of a three classroom block at LGA Primary School, Egan-Moro, Oke-Agbo, Ijebu Igbo, Ijebu

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Special Report: In Nigeria, Teachers are depressed over poor wages

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As investors in education build new schools across communities in Nigeria and the government brags about the increase in enrollment, little or no attention is been made to probe into the teachers’ welfare and how they feel over poor wages. In this Special Report, MAWA Foundation spoke to teachers in different schools to find out

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Work resumes on abandoned school project a month after CDC exposed officials

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Mr. Francis Waive, the Delta State lawmaker, Ministry of Water Resources, and Niger Delta RBDA have returned to the site a month after the Centre for Development Commuunication (CDD) story exposed how the Agbarho Grammer School project was abandoned after N59.63 million was paid to a contractor. CDC had in September, in a report, supported

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Govt Science School Akpanya students learn under terrible condition

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Students of Government Science Secondary School Akpanya in Igalamela Local Government Area of Kogi state learn under terrible conditions despite multi-million education allocation by the state government. A visit to the school by MAWA Foundation shows the students learn under destroyed floors and leaking roofs. Apart from the leaking roofs and destroyed floors, the school

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Nigerian agency, NDE pays N26.250 million to renovate six classrooms block

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The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in a shocking example of procurement abuse that has helped undermine Nigeria’s development has spent the sum of N25.250 million to renovate six classrooms block in Delta State. In the deal, NDE awarded the contract for the renovation of six classrooms block at Zoukumor Primary School, Ojobo in Burutu

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UBEC constructs two classroom blocks for N11.84 million refuse response to FOI request

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A Nigerian agency, the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) saddled with the responsibility for providing access to basic education throughout Nigeria in a clear example of contract inflation has constructed two classrooms block at the sum of N11.84 million in Delta State. In the deal that was struck under the Federal Ministry of Education, the

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Deplorable Kebbi school govt claims spend N280 million monthly feeding kids

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Children in Kebbi state are learning under a deplorable condition despite the state government claim it spends N280 million every month feeding the children under the school feeding programme. Mr. Mohammed Magawata, the Kebbi Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education while speaking at training on Cash Transfer Programme organized by the United Nations Children Education

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