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NUT bemoans teacher shortage in schools

Fadiran Ifeloluwa October 6, 2024

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has expressed concern about the lack of appropriate staff in public primary schools nationwide. Audu Amba, the National President of NUT, stated this at the 2024 World Teachers’ Day Celebration on Saturday in Abuja, adding that one or two teachers

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Cross River targets top educationally-developed status

Angel Ojonugwa August 14, 2024

CALABAR (Sundiata Scholar) – The Government of Cross River has announced its ambition to take the state to the top tier of educationally-developed states in Nigeria. Mr Esu Esu, Chairman, Cross River Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), disclosed this during a news conference on Tuesday in Calabar. Esu emphasised the state’s commitment to rewriting its […]

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Unfair rating of Mamman and education ministry

Angel Ojonugwa June 6, 2024

THE (Sundiata Scholar) – quest to rate ministers who are helping President Bola Tinubu to translate his policies and programmes seems to have created a problem of misunderstanding the role ministers play in government. This is because any rating of the ministries cannot be objective as the functions of the ministers are not all about […]

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Only 63% of primary school-age children regularly attend school – UNICEF

Fadiran Ifeloluwa May 9, 2024

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Nigeria’s education system is encountering issues in terms of student retention, transition, and completion, notably in the country’s Northeast and Northwest. Speaking at a two-day regional stakeholders meeting on out-of-school children and retention, transition, and completion models in Bauchi,

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UBEC trains 1,480 rural teachers to address learning crisis

Fadiran Ifeloluwa May 7, 2024

The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has begun training 1,480 teachers drawn from remote and hard-to-reach schools across 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to the commission, the training is part of the federal government’s attempts to solve the country’s rising learning crisis. The training, which focuses on multi-grade

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UBEC encourages state administrators to prioritise quality education delivery

Fadiran Ifeloluwa April 30, 2024

The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has tasked the State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) with providing quality education to Nigerians. Hamid Bobboyi, UBEC’s Executive Secretary, made the call during a meeting with UBEC and SUBEB’s quality assurance personnel. “As professionals, you need no convincing that quality assurance is an important

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Niger finalises plans to establish smart schools

Fadiran Ifeloluwa April 12, 2024

The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has expressed the commission’s commitment to assisting state governments in transforming their schools into smart institutions that meet the demands of 21st century education. He made this statement while visiting Science Model Primary School Chaza Suleja, one of five

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Plateau Government to establish 302 classrooms worth N3 billion

Fadiran Ifeloluwa April 7, 2024

The Plateau state universal basic education board has announced bidding for the construction and restoration of 302 classrooms for primary and intermediate schools around the state. The bid, according to Plateau SUBEB Executive Chairman Hon. Sunday Samuel Amuna, is for the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2021, as well as the first to 3rd quarters […]

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Plateau SUBEB opens bid for 258 classrooms, others

max Amuchie April 4, 2024

PLATEAU (Sundiata post) – Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) on Thursday opened bid for the award of contracts for the construction and renovation of 258 classrooms and other projects across the 17 local government areas of the state. Speaking at the event in Jos, Chiarman of the board, Mr Sunday Amuna, said that the projects […]

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UBEC boss Bobboyi aims for the implementation of effective school programs

Fadiran Ifeloluwa March 18, 2024

Dr Hamid Bobboyi, Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), has challenged Chairmen of State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) with implementing the Effective School Programmes (ESP). Bobboyi made the claim while addressing at the UBEC-SUBEBs conference in Abuja on Monday. He stated that implementing the ESP would result in enhanced

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Nigeria experiencing severe learning crisis — UBEC

Fadiran Ifeloluwa February 5, 2024

According to Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, the Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, Nigeria is going through a serious learning crisis that has to be addressed right away. Speaking on Monday in Abuja at a two-day stakeholder “Dialogue on Reading Initiative in the UBE Programme and the Use of Mother Tongue/Language of Immediate Environment […]

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States’ inability to access N68bn UBEC fund is criminal – NAPTAN, NANS

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 2, 2024

The failure of certain state governments to access a grant of approximately N68 billion from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has been characterised by certain critical stakeholders in the education system as criminal. They claim that the basic education sector faces numerous challenges, some of which such an amount can help to partially address. As of