Kano govt to set up 130 girl secondary schools

The Kano State Government has disclosed that it has arranged to establish additional 130 Girls' Secondary Schools in the state.

The State's Commissioner of Education, Sanusi Kiru, made the revelation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday, August 30, 2020 in Kano.

According to Sanusi, the schools would be set up in 24 selected Local Government Areas of the state, as part of deliberate efforts to boost girl-child education in the state.

He added that the project would be comprised of 75 post basic and 55 senior secondary schools.

“The state government in collaboration with the World Bank will rehabilitate other schools to enhance girl child education.

“The state government has also set aside N880 million to renovate one secondary school in each of the 44 LGAs of the state,” he said.

He also revealed that the state government will provide N20 million to each of the LGAs for the school rehabilitation project, adding that a committee of community elders and other stakeholders has been established to facilitate the smooth implementation of the project.

Sanusi concluded that the state government had set aside N489.25 million to sponsor 29,126 candidates for the WASSCE, who scored five credits and above, including Mathematics and English in the qualifying examination.

While 8,800 students, who failed to obtain the required credits would be sponsored for the forthcoming National Examination Council (NECO) and the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS).