Kano State’s Bold Investment in Education: Over 1,000 Students Sponsored for Overseas Scholarships”

 

Kano State’s Bold Investment in Education: Over 1,000 Students Sponsored for Overseas Scholarships”

“Kano State has once again prioritized education by sponsoring over 1,000 students for overseas scholarships, a move that contrasts with other states’ minimal education investments. With 31% of its budget dedicated to education, Kano leads in sectoral funding, surpassing UNESCO’s 26% benchmark. Why aren’t other states following suit?”

Today, Kano State just announced they are sending another batch of over one thousand students on overseas scholarships, and the Internet is quiet. How many of your states have sponsored one hundred students in local Nigerian universities? Few. Very few. But when Kano also sponsors mass weddings, which is their culture and which helps them maintain the moral fabric of their society, you will rush to social media and start vituperating. 

How can you be from Anambra, for example, a state where your former Governor, Peter Obi, did not build even one nursery, primary, or secondary school and university and be insulting Kano, a state where their government built two state-owned universities and multiple state-owned polytechnics? 

There are seventy-seven communities without schools in Anambra, and your state government has ZERO students on international scholarship. Yet, Kano mass marriage, which, by the way, is common in the Catholic Church, is your problem? 

I commend the Government of Kano State for its strides in the education sector and urge more states to learn from Kano. Kano dedicated 31% of its budget to education, the second-highest percentage allocation to education of any state in Nigeria. The highest is Enugu, with 32.99%. 

Last year, Kano had the highest sectoral allocation for education of all 36 states. 

The UNESCO benchmark is that 26% of the budget should be allocated to education.

Sadly, Anambra, under Peter Obi and even now, has one of the lowest budgets for education but the highest budget for a beer brewery! 

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