The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Dr. Hamid Bobboyi says inspite of the success recorded in the Nation’s Basic School System,the sector is still faced with some challenges like insecurity in some states which is responsible for the slow trend of school construction and sometimes destruction of completed projects or abandonment of projects.
Dr. Bobboyi said this when he played host to a team of participants of the Senior Executive Course 43, 2021 and some Senior Staff of the National Institute at the Commission headquarters in Abuja.
Represented by the Deputy Executive Secretary (Technical) Dr. Bala Zakari , Bobboyi further attributed the increasing rate of out of school children and it’s implication to social menace to activities of parents who engage the children and wards on economic pursuits such as hawking, child labor, begging and farming.
A statement by the Head, public Relations and Protocol, UBEC Apeh David indicates other challenges as listed by Dr Bobboyi to include inability of some states to demonstrate will power in the provision of adequate budget for running of UBE programme in states, slow accessing of the FGN-UBE matching grants, vandalization of schools and theft of School facilities and equipment.
Also the use of school as emergency rehabilitation centers eg. IDPs, camps, security camp, inadequate teacher commitment to the profession, politicization of basic education in its management administration and supply of data and weak school governance among others.
Meanwhile, the leader of the delegation,Prof Fatai Aremu in his remarks commended the Board and Management of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for progress recorded in the basic education sub-sector despite some of the daunting challenges.
He said the visit was to enable the participants interact with relevant members of UBEC Management on Conceptual and Theoretical Foundation of Policy and Programme Implementation in UBEC.
Other areas of interaction during the study visit includes, frameworks for policy and programme implementation in UBEC, stakeholders in Policy and programme implementation performance in UBEC, a comprehensive analysis on policy and programme implementation in UBEC, options and strategies among other things.
Prof Aremu further noted that the study focuses on “Strategies for Policy and Programme Implementation in Nigeria” stressed that the Commission was selected as one of the strategic institutions of relevance for the engagement.
The National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) is a high level institution with the primary objective of serving the Nation’s foremost think-thank to develop a crop of top class technocrats of high intellectual capacity who will conceptualize and anchor the implementation of innovative and dynamic policy initiative and strategies critical for National development.
