Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, has lamented that the country’s public primary schools lack 194,867 qualified teachers and 1.1 million classrooms. Bobboyi noted that of the 694,078 teachers required at the primary school level, only 499,202 are available. Bobboyi spoke in Lagos at a one-day partnership meeting with the organised private sector on the implementation of the UBE programme. The event was organised by UBEC in collaboration with the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG). The UBEC chief noted that the inadequacy of qualified teachers at primary school level is contributing to learning poverty in basic
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