The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has appealed to state governments yet to access their matching grants to do so in order to improve the quality of education in their states.
Dr Hamid Bobboyi, the Executive Secretary of the Commission made this appeal at a media chat in Abuja on Monday.
Bobboyi said that N37 billion has yet to be accessed between 2015 and 2016 due to lack of counterpart funding.
He said that only Borno, Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Rivers, Sokoto and Bauchi States had accessed their grants in the stated period.
He explained that the Federal Government provided the matching grants while the state governments provides the counterpart funds to access the fund.
“The quarterly meeting with the States Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEB) Chairmen has provided an avenue for deliberating on the best way of…
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