FG budgets N950m for 3 classrooms, N600m for almajiri education

This is found in the 2014 Appropriation Bill recently submitted to the National Assembly by the Coordinating Minister of Economy and Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan.The budget did not specify where this single block of three classrooms will be sited. The construction project, coded in the budget proposal as […]

This is found in the 2014 Appropriation Bill recently submitted to the National Assembly by the Coordinating Minister of Economy and Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The budget did not specify where this single block of three classrooms will be sited. The construction project, coded in the budget proposal as EDUMM010008897 is among the 310 others newly by the ministry of education for 2014.
The budget proposal also reveals that President Jonathan wants the National Assembly to approve N600 million for the National Programme on Almajiri Education in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Fund.
The National Programme on Almajiri Education, coded UBEC 01007234 is one of the three new projects proposed for the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). The other two are the payment of monthly allowance of 15,000 Federal Teachers’ Scheme (FTS) teachers which is going to gulp a sum of N3.240 billion and the monitoring of the Federal Teachers’ Scheme (FTS) teachers, N100 million.  
The federal government introduced the Federal Teachers’ Scheme (FTS) in 2006 to address shortage of qualified teachers in the basic education sub-sector. The scheme, funded through the Debt Relief Gains (DRG), is a two-year programme designed to cater for unemployed NCE graduates.
Under the scheme, NCE graduates are employed by the Federal Government and posted to states for a two-year period before formal absorption by states and local government education authorities.
Further details of the 2014 budget show that while the federal ministry of education gets a total allocation of N12.923 billion; the Universal Basic Education Commission alone gets the sum of N74.410 billion as total allocation.
According to the budget, the ministry has also earmarked N643.4 million as total allocation for the West African Examination Council (international), N2.557 billion for the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB), N3.6 billion for WAEC (local), N885.630 million for the Nigerian Institute of Education Planners and Administration, and N4.515 billion for the National Library of Nigeria; N6.246 billion for the National Examinations Council (NECO), N1.041 billion for the Mass Literacy Council, N726.020 million for the Nomadic Education Commission.
Other proposals for the ministry include a total allocation of N1.529 billion for the National Education Research and Development Council, N1.254 billion for the National Business and Technical Education Board, N861.473 million for the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, N265.127 million for the Computer Registration Council of Nigeria, N951.740 million for the National Commission for College Education Secretariat, and N3.201 billion for the National Teachers Institute (NTI).