Nigeria’s National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children’s Education (NCAOOSCE) says controversial items listed in its 2026 budget allocation are National Assembly constituency interventions assigned for implementation, not projects the commission conceived. The clarification follows public scrutiny over certain non-education or infrastructure-type budget lines, including road construction, which critics say fall outside the commission’s statutory mandate.
In statements reported by multiple outlets, NCAOOSCE’s media/communications representatives say the 2026 Appropriation Act incorporates constituency projects that the National Assembly assigns to ministries, departments and agencies for execution as part of Nigeria’s federal budgeting practice. The commission argues that once a project is assigned to it in a duly enacted federal budget, it becomes part of its implementation responsibilities.
The outlets also report that the commission says its mandate remains unchanged, and that it continues work on Almajiri education and out-of-school children. One outlet includes figures cited from the budget and from the commission’s activities, including an allocation split between capital and recurrent expenditure and claims of profiling out-of-school children and operating learning centres.
