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SUBEB Asks EFCC To Hunt Non-teaching Staff Defrauding Cross-River Government

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The Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to go after all non-teaching staff who do not carry out their duties, but yet receive salaries monthly.

The SUBEB Chairman, Dr. Stephen Odey, said the call was made in a bid to fight corruption to a standstill in the education sector.

He made the remark during the personnel verification, biometrics/image capturing and promotion interview of teaching and non-teaching staff in Boki Local Government Education Authority (LGEA) in Cross River State.

Dr. Odey condemned the high number of non-teaching staff in Boki LGEA, stressing that those who claimed to be teachers due to political settlement have contributed greatly to the near collapse of basic education in the state.

He described the development as unacceptable in the present dispensation, and appealed to the EFCC to help sanitise the sector for the benefit of future generations.

“The number of non-teaching staff here is ridiculous. This is as a result of political settlement and politics should not be played with basic education.

“The basic education sector is important for the future of our children; it is not a joke.

“You see a school of 80 pupils with six teachers and 11 non-teaching staff, or the other school with 14 non-teaching staff doing absolutely nothing.

“People are just sitting at home and collecting money from the government which is stealing.

“Why should the EFCC not come after people like them who are constantly defrauding the government?” he questioned.

 

Source: Channels TV

UBEB recruits 5,000 teachers for five liberated Borno LGs.

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The Universal Basic Education Board said it recruited about 5,000 teachers in Borno State to provide education to children in five local government areas liberated from Boko Haram insurgents.

Dalhatu Suleiman, the Deputy Director of Education, Crises Response Project of SUBEB, made this known during the launch of the 2016 state enrolment Drive Back to School in Maiduguri on Tuesday.

Suleiman said that teachers were deployed to provide basic education to 15,000 children across 301 learning centres in five local government areas of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, Jere, Konduga and Benishaik, Dikwa.

Suleiman said that the programme was aimed at ensuring that all children, especially the girl-child, have access to free and compulsory basic quality education.

Suleiman said: “This programme was supported by the USAID Basic Education Programme in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education Board, with a view to providing greater access and ensuring quality education among Nigerians.

“Within a period of nine months, children who don’t know how to read and write were able to do so. They can now read and write.

“We have visiting lecturers from UNIMAID, state polytechnic and college of education, who are translating our curriculum from English language to Kanuri to enable the pupils to learn faster.

“Our approach to education in Borno is therefore known as providing education in emergency.”

Also speaking, the Executive Secretary of SUBEB in Borno State, Alhaji Shettima Kullima, said the campaign would go a long way in revolutionising the education sector in the state.

Kullima said that Governor Shettima had accorded topmost priority to education in spite of the strangulating insurgency.

Kullima said: “Contracts for the construction of nine model schools have been awarded; works are in a tremendous progress.

“The school feeding programmes would also commence very soon.

“Directives have been issued for the release of teachers’ pending promotion to enable to them perform their duties diligently.”

SUBEB To Rehabilitate 10 Schools In Malammadori LG

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The Jigawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) on Tuesday said it had concluded arrangements to rehabilitate 10 schools in Malammadori Local Government Area of the state.

 

Malam Mukhtar Mukaddari, the Education Secretary in the area, told newsmen in Malammadori that the board would renovate and construct additional classroom blocks in the selected schools.

 

Mukaddari said the project would be executed in both primary and post-basic schools under the 2014/2015 SUBEB project.

 

He listed the benefitting schools to include Chac-Chanda, Baguwa, Shayya, Dakindo and Kampala.

 

“Work on the project will soon commence in the selected schools. Also, more schools will be rehabilitated in the subsequent projects,” he said.

 

The education secretary said that the Board had initiated various programmes to rehabilitate dilapidated schools, provide furniture and instructional materials as well as promote teacher training.

 

He called on the people of the area to protect school facilities provided by the government in their respective communities.

 

(NAN)

Board to launch School Feeding Programme in Enugu

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The Enugu Universal Basic Education Board (ENSUBEB) said on Monday in Enugu that it would start a School Feeding Programme in public primary schools in the state in 2016.

The Chairperson of the board, Ms Nneka Onuorah, said that the programme would begin with a pilot scheme with selected public schools.

 

Onuorah said that mothers of the pupils and their communities would be involved in the programme.

 

“Unlike in the past where the government used vendors to provide meals to children, this school feeding programme is more unique in that the community is fully involved.

 

“It involves the mothers; the mothers will divide themselves into teams of two or three.

“So each week, at least say team A group of mothers will cook for the children and feed the children and they will rotate.

“So the following week, team B group of mothers will now cook for the children.

“Now we find this model to be the most sustainable and we hope that we can branch it out to other schools in other communities and local governments.

“Now, if we do start, we won’t start with every school because of cost.

“We will start small, maybe we will choose one to two schools per local government; and it is always better to start small with this kind of programme.’’

 

Onuorah, who said that the state government would include the programme in the 2016 budget, appealed to the Federal Government, to support it.

She said that the board had sponsored a project aimed at de-worming pupils in primary school between June and Nov. 2015.

According to her, nearly 300,000 children benefited.

She said that the children also underwent ear, eye, and nose screening during the exercise, adding that the programme was to promote healthy growth among the children and lay a better foundation for learning.

Onuorah said that the board had organised series of training and re-training for teachers to enable them to manage schools effectively.

 

(NAN)

Katsina orders withdrawal of children from private schools

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The Katsina State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), has directed primary school teachers and all head teachers in the state to withdraw their children from private schools and enrol them in public schools.

 

The SUBEB chairman, Lawal Buhari Daura gave the directive on Wednesday, during an inspection tour of Local Education Authority (LEA) in Kankia.

 

Daura said the directive was in line with an earlier order issue by the Governor, Aminu Bello Masari that public officers under his administration must patronise public schools as part of efforts to revive the education sector.

 

According to reports, most of the primary school teachers in public schools do not patronise public schools as they enrol their children and wards in private schools, an action which suggests that they have no confidence in the public schools.