UBEC

The Senate has passed the National Senior Secondary Education Commission Bill, 2022. The bill’s passage was sequel to the consideration of a report by the Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary). Senator Akon Eyakenyi (PDP -…

Maulid Warfa, the Chief, UNICEF Kano Field Office, has advised the State Government to put in place legal system on violence against children. Warfa made the call on Tuesday in Kano during the dissemination of research findings on the…

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has directed the Federal Scholarship Board to process the payment of scholarship stipends to Nigerian students studying in Russia. Mr Adamu gave the directive when the Nigerian Ambassador to Russia…

The federal government says that 24 states have so far accessed the Universal Basic Education Fund (UBEC) in full. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, disclosed this at a one-day meeting to strengthen…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has downplayed the cases of kidnapping in Nigeria, saying they were sometimes exaggerated for political effect. Mr Osinbajo was addressing Nigerians based in New York on Monday when he was confronted with…

Anti-corruption advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has sued Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, over alleged poor funding of primary education in his state. In the suit filed before the Federal High Court…

The federal government said it has approved an additional N25 billion as Earned Academic Allowances for members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The government said the cash was aside the N20 billion that was released…

A man who allegedly masterminded the kidnap last month of the Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and his daughter along the Abuja- Kaduna road has been shot dead during a shoot-out with the police. Police…

Muhammed Mahmood, Chairman of the Board of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), and his daughter have been released by his abductors. An aide to Mahmood confirmed the development to SaharaReporters on phone on Tuesday. He…

The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, says Nigeria will soon effect a policy to prosecute parents who refused to enrol their children of school age in schools across the country. Adamu made this known in Abuja on Monday…