Kano State Government is seeking a partnership with the British Council to promote education and further address challenges bedeviling the development of the educational sector in the state.
The state Commissioner of Education, Umar Haruna Doguwa stated this on Tuesday while receiving a team from British Council that paid him a working visit in his office.
A statement by the Director of Public Enlightenment in the Ministry, Balarabe Abdullahi, indicated that Umar Doguwa told his visitors that, “there is no better time to revive the long existing relationship between Kano State Government and British Council than now as the state embarks on creating policies and programmes aimed at promoting the education sector.”
The Commissioner maintained that what the British Council has been doing in Nigeria and Kano state, in particular, in terms of education development remained very commendable, “but there is a need for more to complement the effort of the present administration in revamping the sector.”
He revealed that “at this moment, the state is facing serious challenges that are undermining the progress of education and affecting the future of its youths.
” In Kano now, you have a school with 5000 pupils without standard toilets, no classrooms and seats. So, the problem is serious and pathetic.
” In addition to this, we can find a school with 300 students without a teacher at the same time sitting on the window or bare floor.”
Doguwa stated further that, “Kano is now in need of 1.5 million seats for its students at primary and post-primary schools which were estimated to worth billions of Naira.”
