Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has ordered the full implementation of free education for female students in the state’s public secondary schools to improve girl-child education.
According to the commissioner, 191,445 female students currently in Kaduna public schools will immediately benefit from the government’s new directive which will cost it N143 million every term and N430 million annually.
The commissioner said the government’s decision will remove any hindrance to girls acquiring quality education as they make up a majority of the over 10 million out-of-school children in the country.
No state in Nigeria can boast of free education – Soweto
He said this at the closing of 2018 ERC free holiday coaching lesson organized for students in Ajegunle, and held in Nawair U Deen Primary School, Arumoh street. At the events which saw gifts presented to overall best students in all the classes and that had the presence of Daggar Tolar , a renowned poet and former Nigerian Union of Teachers , NUT chairman Ifelodun- Ajeromi among other dignitaries , Soweto said that ,”
The government is being insincere and dishonest when they say they are providing free education under the education for all project that began over a decade. In Lagos state website, for instance, the said claim is made.