The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has begun the 2022 nationwide National Personnel Audit of all basic education institutions in the country.
Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, said the exercise commenced in the southern part of the country on 6th June, 2022 to end 25th June, 2022 while it will take off in all the northern states and the Federal Capital Territory on 4th July, 2022 and come to a close 23rd July, 2022.
The UBEC boss, who made this known in Abuja, said “during the exercise, our enumerators will visit all basic education institutions in the country: public, private, approved, unapproved, registered and unregistered.
” They are going there to collect basic information on schools and personnel. It is necessary to emphasise that the exercise has no ulterior motive. The data being collected will assist the country to plan effectively towards expanding access to quality education and promoting gender parity at basic and other levels of education.”
Bobboyi said the exercise, which will see to headcount of teachers, pupils, non-teaching personnel and others in early childhood education, primary schools and junior secondary schools, will cost about N2 billion.
“This is a census, you have to send enumerators to every school in the federation. It is something we pegged at N2 billion. We are working under it. The bulk of it goes to personnel, because you have to maintain the people, those in difficult terrains, to access these olaces you have to hire boats and others.
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