The Federal Government if Nigeria has disbursed N57,165,751,416.12 towards the professional development of teachers in Nigeria.
The Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC Executive Secretary, Hamid Bobboyi, disclosed this during the National Conference on Teacher Professional Development currently going on in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
The money was disbursed to all the states across the federation in the last 13 years, Boboyi has said
Although, the money is grossly inadequate to cover the training needs of the teachers,
“The Federal Government, through UBEC, has contributed a total of N57,165,751,416.12 as assistance to the states for teacher professional development between 2009 and 2022,” he said.
“The states that are being assisted have come to depend largely on the Federal Government fund for their TPD, with little or no contribution,” Bobboyi added.
“This is a major challenge in assuring quality learning outcomes at the basic education level.”
He further expressed concern over the poor number of teachers that had undergone training in recent years.
“The UBEC 2022 National Personnel Audit reveals that 67.5 per cent of teachers in public schools and 85.3 per cent in private schools have not attended any in-service training in five years (2018-2022).
“This prevailing situation has implications for quality education delivery,” Bobboyi said at the conference whose theme is ‘Transforming teacher professional development in Nigeria for improved learning outcomes in basic education’.
Bobboyi also took time to lament the poor learner/pupil ratio in Nigerian schools, saying such negative development had resulted in poor learning outcomes
