The World Bank has ordered the release of N30 million to the Kaduna State government to improve teaching and learning facilities at a Universal Basic Education (UBE) Primary School in Rigasa, a suburd of Kaduna.

Dr Olatunde Adekola, a representative of the bank told newsmen that the intervention was for the immediate upgrade of facilities at the school which has 22,240 pupils and over 70 teachers.

Adekola said his team, which was in the state for a mid-term review of the N6 billion granted the state under the bank’s Global Partnership for Education (GPE) scheme noticed that the surge in the number of pupils into the school had put so much pressure on both teaching and learning facilities in the state.

World Bank is spending over N20 billion under the GPE programme to support girl-child education in five northern states of Nigeria where literacy indexes appeared to be very low as compared to other regions of the country.

Other states benefitting from the scheme which is supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DEID) include Sokoto, Katsina, Kano and Jigawa.