Kano state has and will continue to make huge investment in the area of infrastructure, Staff development and the provision of teaching/ learning equipment in state education sector.
This hint was dropped by the State Commissioner of Education, Malam Muhammad Sanusi Sa’id Kiru during the opening ceremony of the North West Zonal Stakeholders Dialogue on schools re-oppening readiness for schools resumption at Tahir Guest Palace, Kano.
He said that such investments which is inline with the state’s free and compulsory Basic and Post Basic Education policy is also in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targeted towards the provision of quality education.
According to him, the strategic focus of the Free and Compulsory education policy in the state is to guarantee equal opportunities for all citizens to access quality and inclusive education with out any form of discrimination.
He added that the ministry is also working towards a comprehensive and integrated basic education reforms programmes to depeen the processes, structures and mechanisms for improving accountability in teaching and learning across both public and private schools.
The Commissioner who enumerated a number of sucessess recorded during his stewardship said that the state has swiftly responded to the Covid-19 pendamic by rolling out series of programmes in line with the Federal Ministry of Education and NCDC guidelines among others.
On the sponsorship of final year students examinations, he hinted that the state government expended the sum.of N498m for the payment of NECO/NBAIS registration, N62m as up-keep allowances to the schools involved in writing the examinations and the review of feeding fee for boarding schools students from N1300 to N1500 amounting to N4.66 Billion for the next Nine months among other projects.
Similarly, the Commissioner said that government had released the sum of N20m to each of the 44 local goverments in the state amounting to N880m for the rehabilitation of dilapidated classrooms.
While expressing appreciation of Kano state government to the federal government for various educational intervention peojects, he also appreciates the selection of Kano state to host an important occasion of this magnitude.
He particularly thanked the federal Ministry of Education for recommending Kano states to benefit from the forthcoming GPE educations incentives, AGILE, IDEAS and BESDA programmes among other interventions and supports.
