NGF to Address States' Inability to Access N45 Billion UBEC Grants

Date: 2024-07-21

According to a news report from Leadership, the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) is set to discuss the states' failure to access N45 billion in matching grants from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).

NGF chair and Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, stated on Friday that the forum would invite UBEC Executive Secretary Dr. Hamid Boboi to the next NGF meeting to shed more light on his claims that state governments have not accessed the substantial sum of N45 billion.

Governor AbdulRazaq said, “Based on this, we will invite UBEC to the next NGF meeting.” He also disclosed that many states had accessed the funds in the last two months.

“Moreover, N45 billion represents about one year's backlog because every state gets about N1bn yearly,” the governor added.

UBEC said on Wednesday that many states were yet to access the N45.7 billion matching grant to implement Universal Basic Education (UBE) between 2020 and 2023.

The commission said only 16 states- Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Enugu, Jigawa, Kano, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Ondo, Osun, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba and Zamfara- have so far accessed the 2023 matching grant, representing 41 per cent of the appropriated N51.6 billion.

The federal government appropriated N51.6 billion in 2023 as a matching grant to states for the development of basic education, but as of June 30, only N21 billion was accessed by the 16 states despite the deplorable state of infrastructure in most primary schools across the country.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Earlyon Technologies     Suleman Abubakar     Aliyu Muyideen     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Usman Alkali Baba     Kwarareports     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Saad Belgore     Kwara Liberation Group     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Ilorin General Hospital     Maimunat Oniyangi     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Nurudeen Muhammed     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Ali Ahmad     Kwara United     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Sarah Alade     Obayomi Azeez     Kamaldeen Kehinde     John Mayokun Dada     Folorunsho Alao     Kwara Volleyball Association     Tunji Olawuyi     Amos Bajeh     George Funsho Adebayo     Mutawalle     Lanre Issa Onilu     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Ajakaye     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Jimba Babatunde     Otuka     Akanbi-Oke     CCB     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Mujtabah Bature     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Muritala Olarewaju     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Aliyu Adebayo     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     GAMA     Yoruba     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Monkey Pox     Ajuloopin     Ifelodun     Timothy Akangbe     Sheikh Alimi     Abubakar Imam     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Sango-UITH Road     Bamidele Aluko     Laduba     Yusuf A. Usman     Lai Gobir     Millennium Development Goals     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Sabi     Yakubu Gobir     Sheikh Ariyibi     Yahya Mohammed     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Ramadhan     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Saliu Ajia     Wahab Issa     Umar Danladi Shero     Abdulmajeed Wahab     General Hospital, Ilorin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Zaratu Umar     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Hauwa Nuru     Umar Saro     FERMA     Okin Group     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Mansur Alfanla     Government High School Adeta     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Aso Ofi     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Elerinjare     Ile Arugbo     Shehu Jimoh     Zainab Abass     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     KwaraLearn     Muhammed Aliyu     Busari Alabi Alausa     Bello John Olanrewaju     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     NFAI     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Forgo Battery     Idiagbon     Kazeem Oladepo     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Oba-Solagberu     Budo-Egba     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Babajide Ajayi     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Kisira     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Baba Issa Awoye     Tope Daramola     Ayedun     Minister     Olawuyi     Balikis Jawondo     Alikinla     Radio SBS     Sheikh Ariyibi     Alapado     John Obuh     Yomi Adeboye     Maryam Ado Bayero     Ojo Isekuse     George Funsho Adebayo     Biliaminu Aliu     Segun Olawoyin     Boko Haram     Bamidele Aluko     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Gbemi Saraki     Yunus Lawal     Lai Mohammed     Oniyangi     Aisha Gobir     Atiku Abubakar     Yusuf Lawal     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     First Lady     NURTW     Michael Ologundea     Igbomina     Javed Khan     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Shonga Farm Project     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Ilorin South Constituency     Imam Gambari