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COTABATO CITY — The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) successfully distributed MBHTE-designed armchairs from April 20 to 30, 2026, across the Schools Division of Lanao del Sur II under the Project Improve Quality Education in the Bangsamoro (IQBAL), ensuring a more conducive learning environment in the following schools.
Headed by Ministery Mohagher M. Iqbal, the MBHTE is one of the 15 primary ministries of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Recipient schools are the following:
• Madamba NHS
• Ganasi NHS
• Datu Raquib Zainudin NHS
• Bae Racma Macabato NHS
• Bacolod Calawi NHS
• Pindolonan NHS
• Kapatagan NHS
• Sultan Barodi Bansil MNHS
• Datu Tanggor NHS
• Sultan Abdulmadid Maruhom MNHS
• Hadja Maimona M. Balindong NHS
• Mamenting MNHS
• Sultan Macapandi M. Padate Integrated NHS
• Pualas NHS
• Pagayawan NHS
• Insana Daing NHS
• Madalum NHS
• Danugan NHS
• Tubaran Proper NHS
• Tugaya NHS
The Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 CAB, is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the Special Geographic Area’s (SGA) 63 barangays or villages — now eight new municipalities — that voted “Yes” in a plebiscite in February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; undivided Maguindanao, 36; Sulu, 19; and Tawi-Tawi, 11. Its component cities are Cotabato (the regional center and capital) in Maguindanao; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur. (✓)