Kaduna Govt declares free education for female students

By Mariam Sanni, Abuja

The Kaduna state government has declared free education for all female students in public secondary schools in the state.
The state commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Ja’afaru Sani, stated this at a press conference in his office.
He said the objective of the policy is to increase the enrolment of young girls into school, giving their strategic role to nation-building.
The commissioner said that a directive has been sent to all the Education zonal offices and secondary schools in the state to immediately commence the implementation of the free education policy.
One of the major policies of the Governor Nasir El-Rufai administration shortly after it came to power is the series of reforms it made in the Kaduna state’s education sector.
This includes the declaration of free education for primary school pupils and recruitment of newly qualified teachers.
It had been only the primary school, pupils enjoying the free education which led to Governor El-Rufai’s decision to include secondary school girls as a way of reducing high illiteracy level in the state, especially among the female folks.
Mr Sani also disclosed that the newly recruited primary school teachers in the state will be paid their outstanding salaries by end of September this year.