World Bank has ordered the immediate release of N30m to improve teaching and learning facilities at a UBE Primary School with 22,240 pupils in Rigasa, Kaduna.

The World Bank representatives, Dr Olatunde Adekola, said that the intervention was for the immediate upgrade of facilities at the school.

He said the high number of pupils had increased pressure on both teaching and learning facilities in the school, which has 70 teachers.

Adekola had led a task team for midterm review of the N6bn granted the state under the bank’s Global Partnership for Education.

The bank is spending N20bn under GPE to support girl-child education in five states of the Northwest, where all indexes on education appeared to be very low compared to other regions.

The target was to increase reading and writing skills for pupils in nursery and those in primary one to three and strengthen community activism and local governance.

It also aimed at expanding access to education through community initiatives and to increase the number of qualified female teachers in areas with high gender disparities.

Other states benefiting from the partnership, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development and UK Department for International Development, include Jigawa, Kano, Katsina and Sokoto.

Meanwhile, the Project Coordinator for Kaduna State, Aburu Musa said over 3,400 primary schools have benefited from the programme.



Source: http://newsafriq.com/

Fantastic

e pain me

They will keep receiving funds from UNICEF, World bank etc yet the educational state of the region is in shambles, not because they are born without good brains but because they spend 6hrs in school and 6hrs in islammiyya. How can u serve 2 masters at a time.

From ages it has been like this, operation channelling all aid to the north.