By Ummi Ismaeel, Minna
Niger State government has spent over N7 billion as counterpart funding for Niger State Universal Basic Education Board (NSUBEB) projects.
The projects include facilities for teaching and learning and as well to ensure timely delivery of educational materials across the state between 2013 and 2019.
The interventions had been instrumental towards the resuscitation of the near collapsed educational system across the three senatorial zones while the administration has also not neglected most importantly, training of teachers to improve their teaching capacity.
Niger Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Ketso, disclosed this at the official flag-off of the National Quality Assurance Training programme titled, “Effective School Evaluation: Panacea for Improving Learning Outcomes and Strengthening of the School System”.
Ketso assured participants that the training programme would enhance the capacity of the educational managers especially the teachers to meet the contemporary challenges of educational needs and the quality of instructional materials.
The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Habib Boboye, who was represented by his deputy, Malam Mansir Idris, commended Niger State government for living up to expectation, while also reminding the government of the need to ensure that quality assurance staff under go ‘competence test’.
Boboye said that there was a team put in place to monitor teaching and learning in the schools as part of reforms in the sector, adding that repositioning of educational sector for greater performance in the country was basically the reason for the provision of such programmes.
