By Priscilla Campbell,
Minna
Within the last six, The Niger State Universal Basic Education (NSUBEB) said received and spent N6 billion between 2013 and 2018.
The Chairman, NSUBEB, Alhaji Alhassan Muhammad Bawa, disclosed this at the Government House, Minna.
He explained that the funds were used for various intervention projects in the Basic Education and Junior Secondary School in the state.
He also said that between 2015 and now, over 16,000 teachers had been trained, even as the Board was set to dispatch 2,500 employment letters to teachers to commence work next month in the state.
He further disclosed that the Board had scaled up intervention in the educational sector with its development partners.
His words: “For now, the total number of enrollment to primary schools is 721,977 with 21,767 teachers in the state. While, 3,989 teachers will take care of 193,304 junior secondary schools.” Bawa however decried the standard of education, adding “some of the teachers who are mostly NCE holders cannot compete with Grade 2 holders in the state.”