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2024/2025 Academic Session:Kano Shifts Schools Resumption Date To 17th Sept, 2024

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Kano State Government has shifted resumption date for all day public/private primary and post-primary schools in the state to Tuesday 17th September, 2024. While pupils and students in boarding schools across the state will resume on Monday 16th September, 2024.  A statement signed by the Director Public Enlightenment of the State Ministry of Education, Balarabe Abdullahi Kiru quoted the state Commissioner of Education Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa explaining that the adjustment follows declaration of 16th Sept, 2024 as public holiday to celebrate Eid-el Maulud. " The adjustment is therefore to allow students to celebrate this holy date which marks the birth of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW). " While congratulating Muslim ummah, I wish to call on them to embrace the values of patience, sacrifice, and patriotism and continue to pray for the state and nation at large " he said. The statement therefore urges parents/guardians of students to take note of t

School Encroachment: Kano Ministerial Committee Visits Over 160 Schools, 42 Need Urgent Govt. Attention, 90 Need Wall Fencing

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......As the Committee Submits its Report Kano Ministerial Committee on Land Encroachment and Trespass in Schools has submitted it's final report after visiting over 160 affected public schools across the 44 Local Government Areas of the State. It could be recalled that on 22nd February, 2024, 16-member committee on land encroachment and trespass in school was set up by the state to identify schools affected with problems of trespass or encroachment and examine their level in the vulnerable schools. Presenting the final report of the committee findings to the Commissioner of Education today Friday, the Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Habib Hassan El-Yakub maintained that upon the inauguration of the committee, the members mobilised for the pursuit of the assignment by going round all the identified schools to access the level of trespass or encroachment. In a statement signed by the Director Public Enlightenment of the Ministry, Balarabe Abdullahi Kiru, said the Cha