6.3.5 The Federal Government has conducted a lot of oral polio vaccinations in collaboration with relevant agencies within the time frame of this report and Nigeria hopes to completely eradicate polio by the end of 2012. As the fight against polio is being concluded, the fight against malaria has been intensified with the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Health, embarking upon a nationwide, free distribution of treated mosquito nets to all households 6.3.6 In an effort to accomplish education for all in Nigeria, the Federal Government embarked upon Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme for the accomplishment of, amongst other things, the education related aspects of the MDGs. This programme commenced in 1999 but was only given legislative backing in 2004 with the Universal Basic Education Act of 2004, which later translated to the establishment of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) to coordinate the implementation of the UBE programme at the state and local government levels, through the State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEB) of each State and the Local Government Education Authorities (LGEAs). 6.3.7 The Programme focuses on supporting the State and Local Governments with additional finance and is designed to provide nine years of basic education for every Nigerian by which time the student should have acquired a level of literacy, numeracy, manipulative, communicative, and life skills to function in a modern society. The Programme has recorded much success in the training of teachers and education managers for better education delivery and in restoring the people’s confidence in public schools. This is evidenced in the increased school enrolments at all levels. 6.3.8 The major challenge facing the programme is the non- payment of matching grants by the states for the purpose of accessing existing funds for educational development. Unaccessed funds from UBEC stood at approximately, thirty four billion Naira (N34Billion) as of July 2011. 6.3.9 This problem was presented to the Governors, by the Minister of Education, in her address to the Governors Forum in November 2011.The Governors stressed ignorance caused by lack of clarity in the information available to 90