The governor of Enugu state, Peter Mbah, has said his administration is planning to make the universal basic education in the state move from 9 years to 12 years.
He said it is to make sure that illiteracy is nipped in the board and that every young citizen of the state have free compulsory basic education up to secondary school level.
Gov. Mbah dropped the cheering news weekend in Enugu at a town hall meeting he organised on how far his administration had gone ten months after he assumed office as the governor.
He said education was paramount to ending poverty and that his administration was taking the issue of education serious, adding that the scholarship programme in the state was still on to ensure that education is given the prime place it deserves.
He noted that originally, the Universal Basic Education (UBE), was nine years covering primary to junior secondary school but now they want to extent it further.
