Muhammad Kabir 
Following improvement in security architecture in the Kano, the Kano State capital, and its environs, the state government has said that some of the Girls Boarding Schools shut down by the administration of Dr Umar Abdullahi Ganduje owing to security challenges, would be reopened for academic session in September.
The government shutdown the 10 girls’ boarding following incessant abduction of students in the boarding schools across Northern part of the country.
The affected schools are Government Secondary School, Ajingi; Government Girls’ Sec – ondary School, Sumaila; Government Girls’ Secondary School, Jogana; Government Girls’ Secondary School, Gezawa and Government Secondary School, Kafin Maiyaki.
The Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Girl-Child Education, Hafsat Aminu, disclosed this during a stakeholders’ learning workshop on Gender Responsive Education Budgeting (GREB), held in Kano.
According to her, the government under the leadership of Governor Abba Yusuf has approved the rehabilitation of the over 20 schools shut down by the past administration in order to boost access to girls education and reduce out-of-school children numbers in the state.
He said: “We are on the path to ensuring that these schools are repaired and reopened. We wanted to open all of them at once, but we realised that there is so much dilapidation that we have to do a lot.
“We are working on the vast majority to make sure they are reopened soon enough. Most likely in the next session (firstterm); we are going to have some of them open.”
