Nigeria, Feb. 24 -- Facts have emerged on how the government of Kwara State, in 2016, diverted part of the matching grants released to the state by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) instead of spending it to upgrade primary and junior secondary schools' infrastructure as provided by the law governing the funds, and an agreement entered with UBEC.

According to a letter addressed to PREMIUM TIMES and signed on behalf of the commission's executive secretary, Hamid Bobboyi, by the director of physical planning, Sadiq Sa'ad, the N1.83 billion released to the state on July 14, 2016, as the state's grants for 2014 and 2015, was returned to the commission unspent.

Though the commission did not state the reason the money was return...