Speaking during the commissioning of the headquarters of the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS), in Kaduna yesterday, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu said efforts are in top gear to capture staff of the board into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), which will cost the government over two billion naira annually.
The Federal Government was also said to have appropriated over N600 million in the 2018 budget for execution of capital projects at the NBAIS.
It has also committed N200 million to rehabilitation of the board’s buildings ceded to it by the government.
NBAIS is the regulatory and examination body for Arabic and Islamic Secondary Schools and centres in the country.
The Board was established in 1960 as Arabic and Islamic Studies Unit under the defunct Northern Nigeria Ministry of Education, it became a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Education in 2017.
