1 week Ago By Chika Otuchikere
The Niger State has earmarked 70 per cent of its 2025 budget to education and health, especially the basic education. This was to address the shortfall in the enrolment of children into the primary schools in the state and the out-of-school children. The Executive Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, Ahmed Baba-Ibrahim, made this known on Monday in an interview.
Baba-Ibrahim said according to a report by an international agency, Niger State has over half a million out-of-school children. He said Niger was lucky with Governor Mohammed Bago because the state had not only fulfilled its counterpart funding for the Universal Basic Education but had exceeded it. Related News Health commissioners demand rise in budget allocation FG’s budget for education too low – Apostolic Old Students 2024: ASUU seeks more budget for education “What I will say is that for us in Niger, we are lucky.
We are lucky because as it were, what used to come to us from the state government at basic education is far more than what is expected. “As of today, what we concentrated on is that we make some provisions and then just to make up the matching grant that will come from the Federal Government and that is it. “But effective from 2025, what Niger State intends to put into effect on basic education outweighs what is going to come from intervention funds, so the state is doing a lot of things for basic education,” he said.
In a media interview at the event, the President of High-Level Women Advocates, Hajia Hassana Adamu, said the group had been collaborating with UNICEF and the Niger State government to commemorate the girl child, sensitising and advocating for their wellbeing..
