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effort, while commendable, still fell short of the
required number of classrooms needed in the
country. In some instances, over 40 pupils craned
their necks at teachers per class, leading to some
public schools having to operate ‗double shifts‘ to
meet up with the demands for schooling expressed
in the number of children in the school.
One example was seen at Kagarawal Nomadic
Primary School, Gombe, wherea primary school
and a junior secondary school operate within one
premised. An additional block of classrooms and a
toilet facility were constructed and put in use
under the 2009 CGS. However, both the primary
school and junior secondary school operate double
shifts. This necessitated the doubling of teaching
facilities to cope with the increase in the number
of pupils/students. The school also operates sideby-side
with an AlmajiriQuranic School. This has
Figure 3: UBEC Implementation Status
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overstretched the toilet facility in the school to
such an extent that what greets a first-time visitor
to Kagarawal Nomadic Primary School in Gombe
is the smell of urine and excreta around the school
premises.
Overall the UBE coordinated FTS has been a
success story, having completed 2 phases of the
programme with the third phase commencing in
2011. The projects have a completion rate of 73%
as out of the 88 projects total only 55 have been
completed as seen from the chart above.
―....This programme has become so popular in
the state that over 90% of the residents of this
state do listen to the programme, even the
people from other tribes living in the state, also
listen to the programme.‖ – Desk Officer,
NMEC, Lagos State, Mr. B.B.Adebisi
National Teachers Institute
The programme funded under the 2009 DRGs-
MDG which the National Teachers Institute (NTI)
carried out was the annual capacity development
of serving public primary school teachers. NTI
was to train 120,000 teachers but only 115, 415
were trained in 246 centres across the nation.
Activities under this programme include:
MDGs teacher re-training workshop for 120
participants –nationwide;
Pre-training activities such as briefing
meetings with some, SUBEB, NUT,
consultants, centre coordinators and resource
persons;
Procurement and distribution of workshop
stationery;
Publicity and video coverage;
Biometric registration;
Printing of registration forms;
Provision of teaching materials;
Distribution of materials to states;
Provision of centre support staff.
A total of N3, 200,000,000.00 was appropriated in
the 2009 DRGs budget for these activities. Of this
amount N3, 199,110,113.87 was expended on the
programme nationwide. A total of 115,415
participants out of 120,000 budgeted for were
trained. The training centres recorded an average
attendance of 98% on the overall programmes,
while the quality compliance of the programme
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