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Kwara State Government has received N7.1 billion grants from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), the first time since 2013 when the state was blacklisted from the national scheme.
A statement issued by the state’s Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development,
Hajia Fatimah Bisola Ahmed says the development represents a historic feat for Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq who has spent the last one year working to reposition basic education in the state.
It says archievement started with the payment of N450m diverted funds which had brought Kwara State under the hammer of the UBEC.
The statement notes that the N7.1bn is a cumulation of UBEC grants that were not accessed between 2014 and 2019, because the former administration failed to pay its own counterpart funds.
It explains that the UBEC grants are meant for rehabilitation of dilapidated basic schools, construction of new ones, equipment of the schools with ICT tools, training of teachers, and project evaluation, among other purposes contained in the UBEC work plan.
