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[Daily Trust] The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has said effort is being made to reduce the counterpart fund requirements to allow more states to access matching grants.

[Daily Trust] Long-term neglect, poor funding and corruption have reportedly ?led to the near collapse of Nigeria's education sector and bringing to the fore several strategies been pursued by the Federal Government to revive the battered system with a view to raising quality, access and equity.

[Daily Trust] The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) has revealed that it has N9.4 billion sugar levy fund domiciled with the Bank of Industry (BOI) and Bank of Agriculture (BOA) for management and lending to players in the sugar sector.

[Daily Trust] Jos -The Chairman of the Mining Implementation and Strategy Team (MIST), Professor Gbenga Okunlola, has said that the mining sector has raised the nation's revenue profile from N600 million to N3 billion since the approval of the mining roadmap 18 months ago.

[Daily Trust] A House of Representatives panel has lamented government's inability to meet its obligations of paying certain amount generated from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) as dues.

[Daily Trust] The Federal Government has lost $21 billion (about N7.6trn) to faulty agreements with international oil companies from 1993 to 2017.

[Daily Trust] World basketball ruling body, Federation of International Basketball Associations (FIBA) has ruled out any ban on Nigeria at the international level until March when a decision will be taken on the issue.

[Daily Trust] The police in Gwarinpa have arrested three suspected fraudsters and recovered a Point of Sale (PoS) machine from them on Monday night.