Operations and Administration

• Attending to matters affecting National Commission for Mass Literacy.
• Attending to matters affecting Local Adult Education Officers (LAEOs) on the field.
• Collating monthly and quarterly reports of activities on Literacy centers.
• Approval of Literacy centers
• Attending to matters affecting I.D.P.S, UNICEF, UNESCO, etc.
• Attending to matters relating to publicity
• Monitoring of learning centers.
• Compilation and issuance of certificate of attendance.
• Compiling of general report.
• Attending to matter concerning NGOs, registrations and monitoring.
• Collaborating with the International Development partners or capacity building and production of learning materials.
• Advocacy, sensitization and mobilization for the Agency Literacy Programme.
• Mainstreaming of Non-Formal Education into Basic Education.
• Collaborating with Tertiary Institution for Production of Primers and training of officers.

Responsibilities of the Department include the following:

• Advising on General Administrative matters in the Agency;
• Ensuring the maintenance of Discipline and cohesion in the Agency;
• Advising on all procurement activities and maintaining the stores and Government inventories;
• Responsible for general Maintenance of Agency Building and Transport;
• Interpretation of Extant – General order, Financial regulation Civil Service Commission Regulations and Establishment circulars
• Taking responsibility for such duties as personnel management and management services; and
• Coordinating Training Programme of staff of the Agency.

• Taking charge of the Account Duties in the Agency
• Advisory on the Disbursement of funds of the Agency
• Advising the Chief Executive, the Accounting officer and other Departmental Heads on Accounting matters
• Performing and any other function(s) as may be assigned from time to time by the office of the Accountant General and Executive Secretary.

The Department is saddled with the following responsibilities:

• Collation of the monthly and annual activities of the Agency by collating the reports of the other department of the Agency;
• Processing due process for all procurement and contract awards for the Agency;
• Collation and processing of the statistical data so collected such as Learner’s enrollment, number of literacy centers and number of (NGOs);
• Collaborate with other department on training and advocacy and community mobilization of relevant stakeholders;
• Preparation of the annual budget of the Agency;
• Rendering other services including supplying information and assistance to students of different higher institution and
• Carrying out other activities as directed by the Head of the Agency.

• To ensure that AANFE remains the people’s Programme through skills acquisition/vocational training, advocacy and mobilization for harnessing human and material resources; mobilize private and international organizations and promote specified activities under Adult and Non-Formal Education Programme for the success of literacy and Vocational Skills delivery in various communities in the State.