The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has announced that more than 69,000 learners nationwide have benefited from its Integrated Qur’anic and Tsangaya Education (IQTE) interventions, aimed at improving non-formal education in high out-of-school children zones.
At the flag-off ceremony held yesterday at the UBEC Zonal Office in Kaduna, the Commission launched the distribution of 100,000 school records and instructional materials to IQTE centres across the country.
The Deputy Executive Secretary (Technical), Rasaq Olajuwon Akinyemi, explained that the programme targets non-formal learning centres in the North-West, North-East, North-Central, and South-West regions, where the out-of-school population remains high.
“The exercise builds on previous IQTE interventions that provided classrooms, recitation halls, furniture, and sanitation facilities to hundreds of centres.
“This initiative is critical for strengthening data management, enhancing learning outcomes, and reducing the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria,” Akinyemi said.
The materials being distributed include enrolment and attendance registers, lesson plans, facilitator guides, assessment records, and visitors’ books, which will help track learners, improve literacy and numeracy instruction, and facilitate the reintegration of pupils into formal schools.
However, Akinyemi expressed concern over the overreliance of many centres on federal support, citing inconsistent counterpart funding by some states.
He urged State Universal Basic Education Boards to prioritise IQTE learners just as they do pupils in conventional schools.
He further outlined UBEC’s strategy for tackling out-of-school challenges, which includes enrolment drives, teacher development, community engagement, and the expansion of non-formal education pathways.
Also speaking at the event, the Director of Social Mobilisation, Adamu Gurama, said the programme bridges religious and secular education, equipping Almajiri and Tsangaya pupils with literacy, numeracy, and life skills while preserving Qur’anic values.
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