Nigeria Gets $125m Grant for Basic Education
A multi-donor funding agenct for interventions in basic education in poor and developing countries, the Global Partnership for Education,, has extended a grant of $125 million to Nigeria to support the development of basic education.
In a statement signed by the Deputy Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Ben Bem Goong, the minister disclosed that the aim of the grant, a product of Nigeria’s Partnership for Education Project , is to improve access and quality of basic education in the country, with particular focus on the girl-child.
“According to the minister, the benefitting states, under the $100 million grant, were Jigawa, Kano, Kaduna and Sokoto States. The states billed to benefit from the current grant are Oyo, Adamawa and Katsina States. In his remarks, the leader of the delegation, Sven Baeten, said the visit was necessitated by his organisation’s interest in the educational development of the country.
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