States Fail To Access N41.6b UBEC Grant

Date: 2021-03-12

Despite the poor state of many primary schools across the country, over N41,064,896,752.62 Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) matching grants is lying unaccessed.

UBEC executive secretary, Dr Hamid Boboyyi disclosed this in Abuja yesterday, while presenting the 2020 capital budget performance to the Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary).

Giving a breakdown of matching grants implemented by states since 2017, the UBEC boss said while 32 states and FCT implemented the 2017 project, four states: namely, Anambra, Imo, Kaduna and Kwara were yet to implement the projects in the said year.

He said, "30 states and FCT implemented in 2018, 6 states namely: Anambra, Imo, Kaduna, Kwara, Ogun and Plateau are yet to implement, 8 states implemented the 2019 matching grants projects, 28 states and FCT are yet to implement. In 2020, no state implemented the matching grants projects."

Bobboyi further explained that states were yet to access the 2020 grants because it was only opened for access towards the end of last year.

The ES also said the sum of N29,751,242,914.90 was received by the commission, representing 99.92 percent as at 31 December 2020 and was able to award contracts worth N27,573,254,231.69 for the 2,895 constituency projects.

Also speaking, a senator representing Imo West Senatorial district, Rochas Okorocha, who is also a member of the Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary) stressed the need to place more emphasis on fixing insecurity in the north where attacks on schools have become the order of the day.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Simeon Ajibola     Ibrahim Jawondo     Issa Manzuma     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Bank Of Industry     Tunde Oyawoye     Maryam Nurudeen     Erin-ile     MalHub     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Amuda Musbau     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Dorcas Afeniforo     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Kwara TV     Kwara State University Of Education     Elerinjare     Rotimi Atere     Bola Tinubu     KWIRS     Yahya Mohammed     Saad Belgore     NFAI     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     SAPZ Project     Olatinwo     Samuel Adedoyin     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Atunwa     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Ballah     Osi     Saba Jibril     Lithium Deposit     Waheed Ibrahim     Ilorin General Hospital     Naira Redesign     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Abubakar Atiku     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Moro     Yaman     Riskat Opakunle     Saraki     Akorede     Bahago     Toyin Sanusi     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Maryam Ado Bayero     Ibrahim Bio     Quarry Royal Valley     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Saka Abimbola Isau     Alapado     Modibbo Kawu     CT Ayeni     Yekini Adio     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Bashir Badawi     Adamu Atta     Pacify Labs     Ibrahim Abiodun     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Hamid Bobboyi     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Okin Group     Issa Oloruntogun     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Ayobami Seriki     NIPR     Amuda Bembe     Eleja    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Mohammed Abduraheem     Kishira     CUTI     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     IHS     Press Release     Seun Bolaji     Haliru Yahaya     Suleiman Ajadi     Democracy Day     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Yakub Ali-Agan     Awwal Jawondo     Seni Saraki     CACOVID Palliatives     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Rashidi Yekini     Samuel Adedoyin     Okanlawon Musa     Matthew Babaoye     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Mohammed Lawal     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Presidential Election     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Sabo-Oke     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Salman Jawondo     Kayode Alabi     Ileloke     Patience Jonathan     Grillo     Olofa Of Offa     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Plat Technologies     Olayinka Are     Orisun Igbomina     Olabode Towoju     Jebba     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Share-Tsaragi     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Paul Odama     Kawu Baraje     Harmony Holdings     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Fareedah Dankaka     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Yunus Lawal     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Kabir Shagaya     Bola Tinubu     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Kale Ayo     Alao Ayotunde     Lawal Olohungbebe     Sunday Otokiti     Tunji Arosanyin     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Yunus Oniboki     Ita-Ore     Bayo Ojo     KWASSIP     Kwara Poly     Alikinla     Ibrahim Bio     A.E. Afolabi     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Roseline Oni Aremu     Oloje     Wahab Egbewole     Apaokagi     Lawan