EDTFB · THE EDUCATION TRUST FUND
The Kano State Education Development Support Board
The Board that builds: the one per cent Education Development Trust Fund, the Special Public Primary Infrastructure programme, and every classroom block, borehole, laboratory and textbook consignment the State pays for.
What the Board is responsible for
The Education Development Support Board administers the Education Development Trust Fund, the Special Public Primary Infrastructure programme and all donor-financed capital works in the education sector. It was created in 2019, when the State declared a state of emergency on education and decided that capital spending on schools should have a dedicated fund, a dedicated board and a published project list rather than competing line by line each budget year.
The Board does not manage schools and enrols no pupils. It builds, renovates, equips and supplies, on the instruction of the Ministry and on need established by the Annual School Census. A head teacher does not apply to it directly: a need is raised through the local government education authority, which submits it into the project pipeline, where it is ranked against the census evidence.
Every project the fund pays for is published with its location, its contractor, its value and its percentage completion, and is verified physically by the inspectorate before it is accepted and paid for.
The fund, in figures
1%
Of the consolidated fund
One kobo in every hundred the State receives
₦4–6bn
Into the fund each year
Depending on what the State receives
60 / 40
Equipment to structures
The statutory split of the pool
2019
Established
With the state of emergency on education
The arithmetic, stated plainly
Where the money comes from, how it divides, and how it reaches a school. Every stage is published.
One per cent is set aside
The Education Development Trust Fund receives one per cent of the State's consolidated fund — one kobo in every hundred that the Kano State Government takes in. Since 2019 that has produced between ₦4,000,000,000 and ₦6,000,000,000 a year. The deduction is statutory, not discretionary: it is not a budget line that can be traded away in a difficult year.
The pool splits 60 / 40
Sixty per cent of the pool goes to Educational Equipment and forty per cent to Structures. On a pool of ₦5,000,000,000 that is ₦3,000,000,000 for equipment — furniture, textbooks, laboratory apparatus, ICT — and ₦2,000,000,000 for building work. The split is fixed by the Fund law and cannot be varied by the Board.
Need is established from the census
Projects are ranked on evidence from the Annual School Census: classrooms per pupil, seats per pupil, whether the school has water, whether its toilets function, whether its laboratory has apparatus. A need raised without census evidence goes to the bottom of the list, because the census is what makes the ranking arguable rather than personal.
The pipeline is approved and published
The annual project list is approved by the Ministry, published with location, category, contractor and value, and executed under the State public procurement law. The Special Public Primary Infrastructure programme takes the worst-affected primary schools first.
Delivery is verified before payment
The inspectorate visits and verifies physically. A payment certificate is signed by the Board and countersigned by the Ministry's Directorate of Finance and Accounts. Percentage completion is updated publicly as the work proceeds, and a contractor who abandons a site is removed from the register.
What the fund builds and buys
The eleven project categories, and which side of the 60 / 40 split each falls on.
| Category | Window | Typical scope |
|---|---|---|
| Classroom Block | Structures (40%) | A block of three or six classrooms with veranda, doors, windows, plastering and painting, built to the State standard drawing |
| Renovation | Structures (40%) | Roofing, plastering, flooring, doors, windows and painting of an existing block that is structurally sound |
| Perimeter Fence | Structures (40%) | Blockwork fencing and a gate, prioritised for girls' schools and for sites beside a highway or market |
| Borehole & Water | Structures (40%) | Borehole, pump, overhead tank and standpipes, with solar pumping where there is no reliable supply |
| Toilet Block | Structures (40%) | Separate sanitation for girls and boys with a water point, the single strongest predictor of girls staying in school |
| Science Laboratory | Structures (40%) | Laboratory building with benching, water, gas points, ventilation and a preparation room |
| Library Building | Structures (40%) | Reading room, shelving, store and a librarian's office at a school or a public service point |
| ICT Centre | Educational Equipment (60%) | Computers, networking, power backup and furniture for a school ICT centre, with installation and a maintenance term |
| Furniture Supply | Educational Equipment (60%) | Pupil desks and chairs, teachers' tables, cupboards and staff room furniture, supplied against the census seat gap |
| Textbook Supply | Educational Equipment (60%) | Core-subject textbooks and exercise books for public basic schools, delivered before the first term begins |
| Laboratory Equipment | Educational Equipment (60%) | Apparatus, reagents, glassware and workshop tools for science secondary schools and technical colleges |
How EDTFB is organised
Two tiers, and no schools. The Board is a delivery body, not a managing board.
- Board Headquarters, Audu Bako Secretariat — Holds the fund, approves the pipeline, procures and pays. The Executive Secretary and the Director of Projects and Monitoring sit here.
- Project Units — Units for structures, equipment, procurement and monitoring, each with engineers and quantity surveyors who verify work on site.
Who leads EDTFB
The executive head answers to the Honourable Commissioner for Education through the Permanent Secretary. Formal correspondence should name the school and the local government area concerned.
Arc. Nafisa Auwal Minjibir
Executive Secretary, The Kano State Education Development Support Board
M.Sc (Architecture)
A registered architect who joined the Board at its creation in 2019. She owns the project pipeline, the contractor register and the publication of percentage completion for every project the fund pays for.
edtf@moe.kn.gov.ngEngr. Khadija Umar Bunkure
Director, Projects & Monitoring
B.Sc (Ed) Technical Education
Leads projects and monitoring, and signs the payment certificates that follow physical verification. Her unit maintains the standard drawings to which every classroom block in the State is built.
Questions head teachers and communities ask the Board
My school needs classrooms. How do I get on the list?
How are projects chosen between schools?
Can we see how a project is progressing?
The contractor has abandoned the site. What happens?
Why is 60 per cent spent on equipment rather than buildings?
Can a community or company build a block for a school?
Nothing is paid for on a photograph
Payment follows physical verification by the inspectorate and a certificate signed by the Board and countersigned by the Ministry's Directorate of Finance and Accounts. Percentage completion is published as the work proceeds.
No officer of the Board may solicit a payment from a school, a community or a contractor. Report any such approach through the feedback form or on the toll-free line, 0800 MOE KANO.
Where to find EDTFB
Project enquiries need the project reference and the school name; contractors should quote the contract number.
- Headquarters: Block F, Audu Bako Secretariat, Kano
- Telephone: +234 803 119 4489
- Email: edtf@moe.kn.gov.ng
- Counter hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 16:00
- Project needs are submitted through the local government education authority, not directly
- Published project list, contractors and completion: /reports/budget-performance
Follow the money to the classroom
The project list, budget performance and the open data sets behind them are published and downloadable.