UBEC To Spend ₦2.4b In Rehabilitation Of Public Schools

Maybe there's still a light down the tunnel for the constantly dwindling public system of education in Nigeria
as the sum of ₦2,460,300,000 has been disbursed towards the rehabilitation of public schools throughout the country in 2018.

Albeit, the cold hands of corruption catching up with the said sum, it will provide funds to rehabilitate depleted school facilities across the country especially in Southeastern Nigeria.


UBEC's executive secretary Dr Hamid Bobboyi had on Wednesday revealed that the sum of ₦11.4b had been released to state Universal Basic Education(UBE) boards within the country and private providers of centres for children with special needs since 2005 .

At a meeting of UBEC officials with SUBEB desk officers and private providers of special education for the 2016 intervention fund in Abuja,  Mr Bobboyi revealed that these funds are specifically and specially to be dedicated towards facilitating the provision of basic education to every young child in the country.

“In order to achieve its objectives , the UBEC management set aside two per cent of the Consolidated Revenue Fund being FGN - UBE Intervention Fund to support states in the education of children with special needs . The fund was meant for disbursement to all the 36 states and the FCT through their various universal basic education boards .

“ The commission has since then been supporting both the public and private providers in that regard with a view to ensuring equity and inclusiveness in basic education . 
For instance ,we have from 2005 to date disbursed over N 11. 46bn to both SUBEBs and the private providers that led to the construction of over 1,565 classrooms , 11, 
324 sets of various furniture, 401,038 instructional materials and 6,942 equipment .

(A public school classroom in Nigeria) 

“Over 250,000 schools are being provided with funds annually to implement various categories of projects ranging from classroom construction ,renovation , furniture, purchase/procurement of equipment , learning and instructional material.”


Poor funding has been one of the numerous problems killing education in Nigeria but UBEC just got one over it.

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