World Bank To Invest $100m To Improve Quality Basic Education In Five States In Nigeria

At the lunch of the project in Katsina, the Minister of
Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu explained that the project
was aimed at improving access and quality of basic
education with particular attention to girls and out of school
children. He said the Five States are to benefit from a one hundred million dollar
Global Partnership for Education project supported by the
World Bank.
The States are Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa, and Sokoto.The Minister, who was represented by the Coordinator of the
Nigeria Partnership for Education Project at the
Federal Ministry of Education, Mr. Joseph Owoicho,
explained that the benefitting States will design the policies
based on which the project will be executed in their states.
Representative of the World Bank, Dr. Adekola Tunde, urged
the benefitting states to utilise the funds to improve
infrastructure in primary and pre-primary schools and
ensure equitable access to quality education, particularly at
the grassroots.
In his speech, Governor Aminu Bello Masari noted that the
funds will be utilised for the improvement of teacher's
capacity and the procurement of instructional and working
materials for primary schools.