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US-based educational body to build schools in Nigeria

    ABIDJAN

    US-based International Foundation for Education and Self-Help plans to build 200 schools in Nigeria over the next four years as its contribution to the country’s new Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme, according to news report Thursday.

    They quoted the head of the foundation, the Reverend Leon Sullivan, as making the pledge on Wednesday during a visit to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja, AFP reporting, quoting the ‘Tribune’ newspaper.

    Nigeria launched UBE in September to provide qualitative, free and compulsory education in public schools from the primary to junior secondary levels.

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