Education

Only four percent of northern girls completed secondary school: Report

Only four percent of northern girls complete secondary school, says a survey by the Centre for Girl Child Education (CGE). The centre’s board member Binta Muhammad disclosed this on Thursday in Sokoto. Ms. Muhammad stated that CGE was established in 2007 with 64 girls in rural communities in Kaduna after a baseline survey was conducted.

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Bauchi children learn sitting on wooden planks despite N10 million FG allocation

Children in the Gizaki community at Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Northeast Nigeria have continued to learn sitting on the wooden planks as the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) is yet to supply desks to the primary school despite N10 million that has been allocated to school furniture. This is even as the

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Bauchi Primary 6 Pupils Can’t Write 1-10 in Figure UBEC Uncovers

Bauchi Primary 6 Pupils Can’t Write 1-10 in Figure UBEC Uncovers

The Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC) has uncovered that the primary six pupils’ in Bauchi State cannot write 1-10 in figures, a discovery made during their official visit to some schools in the state. Mr. Abubakar Surunbai Ph.D., chairman of Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board visited some of the primary schools in the state

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Despite N2 billion, Edo community school in deplorable condition

Despite the sum of N2 billion spent by the Edo State government on Basic Education, Apana community Secondary School is in a dilapidated condition. The Edo State Government in her 2020 budget allocated the sum of N2, 000,000,000.00 to the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation programme (Edo BEST) under the Ministry of Education. This is

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Despite N238.346 billion education expenditure, no school in Ogun community

Oloke Ali community in the Ajebandele area of Ogun State has no government public school despite the sum of N238.346 billion the state government had expended on education in three years. Because there is no government school in the area, the community has only one terrible dilapidated private school that serves as the only source

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Akwa Ibom lawmaker reacts to MAWA story, says hold UBEC responsible

Mr. Onofiok Luke, a lawmaker from Akwa Ibom has reacted to the MAWA FOUNDATION story that shows how the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) spent N100 million to construct two blocks of classrooms as his constituency project. In an email sent to MAWA by Mr. Aniekan Udofia, his media aide, the Akwa Ibom lawmaker exonerated

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