The Minister of State for Education, Suwaiba Saad Ahmad, recently flagged off the training of 774 education secretaries from across the country at the UBEC Digital Resource Center (DRC) in Abuja.
The training was organised by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) as part of its mandate.
Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, Executive Secretary of UBEC, in his remarks, stated that the education secretaries oversee schools and teachers within their purview and play important roles in the execution of education policy in their respective Education Authorities.
For this reason, she emphasised the importance of including them in any educational program to achieve successful and efficient outcomes.
The training took place in six different locations across the nation: Enugu, which hosted participants from the southeast states; Bauchi, with participants from the northeast; Kaduna, with participants from the northwest; Uyo, with participants from the south-south zone; and the FCT Center, which hosted participants from the north-central states.
Among other objectives, the training aimed to increase the Education Secretaries’ awareness of the UBE program, the Ministerial Strategic Plan and its deliverables, and their ability to contribute to the successful execution of the 2023/2024 Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programme.
