The Nigerian Government has disbursed the sum of N22 billion to train 224,000 teachers and N2 billion to 1,147 School-Based Management Committees, SBMCs, across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, made the disbursement on Monday while flagging off the National School-Based Committee- School Improvement Programme, SBMC-SIP, and Teacher Professional Development, TDP, Programme in Abuja.
Alausa disclosed that each state received over N598 million for targeted training in key areas to improve quality education, while each SBMC received up to N1.8 million to support over 15,000 different improvement projects.