The Executive Chairman of Kebbi state universal basic education board, professor Khalid Jega has disclosed that over 850,000 pupils are in both primary and junior secondary schools in the state.
Khalid, stated this while addressing a stakeholders meeting on the conduct of kebbi state national personnel audit with universal basic education commission UBEC team from Abuja, in Birninkebbi.
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Professor Khalid said, that the Kebbi state universal basic education aims especially on the data of their teaching and non-teaching staff, pupils enrollment which is aggravated by gender, age, class, school, town and local government areas in both public primary and junior secondary schools as well as private schools.
Khalid added that, updated information is needed on the level of completion of projects done, or the ongoing ones by the state universal basic education board (SUBEB).
Earlier, the team leader of universal basic education council ( UBEC), professor Onoja Onuche, explained that the main objective of the exercise was to check out the enrollment of Pupils, quality of the teachers and teaching environment. He added that, kebbi state has done well in the past and hopes that the state would perform better in the audit exercise.
(Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu)
