Tag: UBEC
SERAP reports Nigerian officials to ICC for ‘leaving’ millions of...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the alleged negligence of...
Reps block move to integrate Almajiri in basic education
The House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously rejected the prayer of a motion seeking to make the Federal Ministry of Education integrate the Almajiri...
Literacy is not just the ability to read and write English
It is common among certain Nigerians to refer to someone else as an illiterate because they cannot communicate in English. You would...
’12 states, FCT yet to fully access UBE funds’
The federal government has revealed that 24 states have so far accessed the Universal Basic Education Fund (UBEC) in full, leaving out...
UBEC contract scam leaves trail of substandard school projects in Kano
20 years after the introduction of the Universal Basic Education Act, the commissions’ failure to implement the Act has pushed the number...
UBEC commences Open Schooling Programme in July for out-of-school children
The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), has said it will commence Open Schooling Programme across the 36 states of the federation by...
Success Adegor: SERAP sues Okowa over ‘substandard primary schools’
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court to: “compel governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa of Delta...
57% of Nigeria’s basic education teachers qualified – Bobboyi
The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi has revealed that only 57 per cent of the nation’s basic education...
How UBE intervention funds are shared
The Universal Basic Education (UBE) is a nine-year education every Nigerian child is meant to compulsorily have for free. It includes six...
Sources of basic education funding in Nigeria
Basic education is a right guaranteed by Nigerian laws. The 1999 constitution even states that its funding is free of cost for...