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Nigeria’s Schools Lack 277,537 Teachers, As Govt Pumps In N153 Billion In 4 Years

Information has emerged that Nigeria’s basic education schools currently lack a total of  about 277,537 despite that the sum of N153 Billion had been expended on it in the past four years.

According to the new  National Personnel Audit report, the over N153 billion was disbursed to state governments in the last four years for the implementation of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) in the country.

These facts were made known today, December 16 in the 2018 National Personnel Audit (NPA) that was conducted by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), on public and private basic education schools in Nigeria. It was officially launched in Abuja by the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu.

According to the report, there was a deficit of 135,319 teachers at the Early Childhood Care Development Education, 139,772 deficit in primary schools and 2,446 shortage in Junior Secondary Schools across the nation.

The report also put the number of primary-school-age children who are not in school at 10,193,918, which is said to be 25 per cent of all primary school-age children in the country.

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On school enrollment, the 2018 NPA report indicated that there are 27.8 million learners in primary schools-22,384,755 in public primary schools and 5,504,632 enrollment in private schools.

The Minister of Education in his address during the presentation of the report to the public at a ceremony held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, disclosed that from 2015 when the current government came in, to date, over N173 billion has been released to UBEC as matching grant.

Adamu noted that out of this figure, N153 billion was disbursed to the states government for the implementation of the Universal Basic education in the country.

Similarly, he said the sum of N34 billion was also released to states for Teacher Professional Development while over N8 billion was released to states for the education of children with special needs.

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