UBEC to initiate entire implementation of 10-year education roadmap in October

The commission additionally unveiled the Elementary Education Action Outline Administration Mechanism (BEAPMS), a internet-based platform designed to improve planning, transparency and monitoring of essential education projects across Nigeria.

UBEC adopts overall-school strategy

Garba said the roadmap and BEAPMS are portion of reforms aimed at moving UBEC interventions away from isolated projects towards a “overall school technique”.

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A comprehensive school procedure means you take a school and look at all the gaps,” Garba said.

“We are no longer going to be doing two blocks of classrooms in the bush and abandoning them minus any fence or toilet,” she added.

She explained that where a school requires fencing, toilets, furniture, computers or supplementary classrooms, such needs would be captured as portion of the intervention approach.

UBEC revises matching grant formula

Garba additionally announced a revised matching grant formula that will permit states to deploy UBEC capital according to their particular education needs.

She said the prior formula focused primarily on fresh infrastructure, limiting connection for states whose priorities were the maintenance and improvement of up-to-date schools.

“The recent formula allows each declare to look at its own needs given that there is no one-size-fits-all,” she said.
“If the demand on the ground is furniture, renovation, fencing, computers or other facilities, then states are allowed to oversee those needs,” she added

According to Garba, the revised formula could too endorse enrolment materials and further teachers where states identify increased enrolment as a priority.

Novel web-based platform to follow UBEC projects

The commission said BEAPMS will furthermore supply communities a role in monitoring projects implemented in schools.

Garba said the volume of capital accessed by each status will be published on UBEC’s web presence alongside facts on the projects being implemented.

“This will additionally let us to bring in the network to be element of the monitoring of the projects that we do on the ground,” she said.

She added that the platform would provide parents and readers members bigger visibility into how UBEC capital are used and the projects being implemented.

“Using that, the culture can hold us accountable to the cash we have accessed from UBEC, the projects we are doing on the ground, as well as the quality of projects,” she said.

Garba said BEAPMS had been under development for further than a month, adding that SUBEB chairmen had been fully onboarded ahead of its complete implementation.

Earlier efforts to reform UBEC funding

The up-to-date reforms construct on earlier efforts by UBEC to strengthen how elementary education money are planned, accessed and monitored.

Nairametrics reported in July 2025 that the Federal Government was reviewing the guidelines for accessing UBEC intervention capital, alongside later disbursements expected to be tied to results targets.
The assessment was aimed at making the funding handle greater versatile for states whilst strengthening accountability and value for capital.
In April 2026, UBEC allocated N5.18 billion to 518 communities across the country under its School-Based Oversight Committee–School Improvement Programme (SBMC-SIP).

In May 2025, UBEC furthermore began developing a modern template to tutorial states in preparing activity plans for accessing federal intervention money, following concerns over conditions attached to accessing the finance.