By Umar Idris Shuaibu, Kano
The Kano State Independent Students Consultative Forum has commended Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf over what it described as remarkable achievements recorded 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 group highlighted major reforms and investments carried out by the administration across all levels of education in Kano State.
Addressing journalists, the Chairman of the Forum, Comrade Abubakar Sa’ad, said the administration had transformed the education sector through increased funding, infrastructure development, teacher recruitment, student welfare programmes and institutional reforms.
According to him, the state government consistently allocated more than 30 percent of its annual budget to education, exceeding the benchmark recommended by UNESCO. He disclosed that the 2026 budget alone earmarked over N400 billion for the sector.
He further stated that the administration constructed over 1,000 classrooms across the 44 local government areas, reopened boarding schools previously shut down, renovated public schools and provided more than 200,000 units of furniture, alongside free uniforms and writing materials for students.
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The Forum also praised the government for reopening rural tertiary institutions, upgrading facilities at Aliko Dangote University of Science and Technology and Northwest University Kano, as well as initiating plans for the establishment of Gaya Polytechnic.
Speaking on student welfare, Sa’ad said the government spent over N1.5 billion on the payment of WAEC and NECO examination fees for students, while also sponsoring 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 commended 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 more than N5.5 billion was approved in 2025 for projects including 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 had already started yielding positive results, citing Kano State’s emergence as the best-performing state in the 2025 NECO examinations and its strong performance in the 2026 SSCE results, where over 68,000 candidates reportedly secured five credits including Mathematics and English.
Beyond education, the students declared support for Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s second-term ambition, insisting that the administration had demonstrated commitment to youth development 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 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 a leading educational centre in Nigeria through deliberate investments and reforms under the present administration.