The Katsina State administration and the World Bank have finalized plans to invest more than N8 billion in the building and renovation of a few chosen secondary schools within the state.
This was revealed by Governor Umaru Radda on Monday, July 15, 2024, during the opening of the third phase of the Adolescent Girls Initiative Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) school improvement project at the State’s Rimi local government district.
The governor stated that the N8.4 billion in money will be used to upgrade roughly 100 state-chosen secondary schools. The cash will also be distributed to the state’s selected secondary schools’ School-Based Management Committees (SBMC).
Governor Radda charged the SBMCs to appropriately use the monies for the purpose for which they were intended and advised against actions that can cause the State government to lose future opportunities in a statement released by Dr. Bala Salisu Zango, the state’s commissioner of information and culture.
Hajiya Hadiza Abubakar Yar’adua, the state’s commissioner of basic and secondary education, had earlier in her speech emphasized the Radda administration’s dedication to providing high-quality education to the people of the state.
She praised Radda for training 10,000 teachers in an effort to increase their professionalism and competence, and she reiterated the aim to examine the curriculum to ensure that it satisfies both student requirements and international standards.
Dr. Mustapha Shehu, the state’s AGILE Coordinator, clarified that secondary schools in the local government areas of Rimi, Charanchi, and Batagarawa would receive ₦677 million for school improvement out of the ₦8.4 billion.
Shehu went on to say that the AGILE program assists the state’s most vulnerable youngsters in addition to developing infrastructure.