By: Mutawakkilu Ibrahim Idris
The Kano State Independent Students Consultative Forum has commended the administration of Abba Kabir Yusuf for what it described as remarkable achievements in the education sector between 2023 and 2026.
The commendation was made during the formal inauguration of the Forum’s State Executives and AKY Campus Students Ambassadors, where the students’ body praised the government’s extensive investments and reforms across all levels of education in Kano State.
Speaking to journalists at the event, the Chairman of the Forum, Comrade Abubakar Sa’ad, said the administration had significantly transformed the education sector through improved funding, infrastructure development, teacher recruitment, student welfare programmes, and institutional reforms.
According to him, the Kano State Government consistently allocated more than 30 percent of its annual budget to education, surpassing the benchmark recommended by UNESCO. He disclosed that over N400 billion was earmarked for the education sector in the 2026 budget.
Sa’ad stated that the administration constructed more than 1,000 classrooms across the 44 local government areas, reopened previously closed boarding schools, renovated public schools, and distributed over 200,000 units of furniture, alongside free uniforms and writing materials for students.
The Forum also applauded the reopening of rural tertiary institutions and the upgrading of facilities at Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology and Northwest University Kano, as well as plans to establish Gaya Polytechnic.
Speaking further, Sa’ad revealed that the government spent over N1.5 billion on the payment of WAEC and NECO examination fees for students and sponsored 1,001 postgraduate students abroad under a foreign scholarship programme.
He added that the administration introduced a 50 percent reduction in tuition fees across state-owned tertiary institutions and approved N144 million for the distribution of free uniforms to indigenous students participating in the 2025 JAMB examinations.
The students’ body equally praised the recruitment of over 20,000 qualified teachers, describing it as a major step toward improving teaching quality and learning outcomes in public schools.
On recent approvals by the State Executive Council, the Forum disclosed that over N5.5 billion was approved in 2025 for projects including the renovation of Government Technical College Ungogo, accreditation exercises at Kano State Polytechnic, settlement of boarding school feeding debts, procurement of instructional materials, and completion of an e-library at KASCEPS.
The Forum noted that the reforms were already yielding positive results, citing Kano State’s emergence as one of the best-performing states in the 2025 NECO examinations and its strong performance in the 2026 SSCE results, where more than 68,000 candidates reportedly secured five credits, including Mathematics and English.
Beyond education, the students declared support for Governor Yusuf’s second-term ambition, insisting that the administration had demonstrated genuine commitment to youth empowerment and educational advancement.
The group also condemned political thuggery and called on security agencies to investigate and prosecute individuals sponsoring violence in the state, stressing that sustainable educational growth could only thrive in a peaceful and stable atmosphere.
“We stand with a leader who has stood with students. Kano belongs to students, traders, farmers, and law-abiding citizens, not political thugs,” the Forum stated.
The students reiterated that Kano State was gradually reclaiming its position as one of Nigeria’s leading educational centres through deliberate investments and reforms under the present administration.