Implementation of Universal Basic Education Programme in North-Central, Nigeria from 1999-2024: A Review Study
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This paper is a review paper that critically evaluate the implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) in North-central, Nigeria from 1999 to 2024. As a review paper, it depends on secondary data which were collected from different sources such as online publication and print documents. The paper conclude that Universal Basic Education (UBE) has been implemented to a moderated extent in North-Central, Nigeria. The paper identified inadequate fund, shortage of infrastructural facilities, inadequate professional teachers, insecurity, corruption, lack of political will to access intervention grant and outdated UBE act as challenges militating against implementation of the effective implementation of the Universal Basic Education programme in North-Central, Nigeria. Based on these points, the paper suggests the following measures; increment in the budgetary allocation of UBE programme, employment of more professional teachers, provision of more infrastructure facilities, improvement of supervision, provision of security in the schools, deployment of technology for the fighting of corruption, control of inflation and.
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