PROGRAMMES
What the Ministry is doing, and what it costs
Seven programmes, ₦109,300,000,000 committed in the current financial year out of an education budget of ₦168,400,000,000. The oldest has been running since 1992. Each page below says what the programme delivers, who is eligible and how progress is measured.
Programmes, not announcements
A programme on this page is a line in the State budget with a lead board, a defined group of beneficiaries, a delivery mechanism and a published measure of whether it is working. Everything here has money against it, and the money is reported on in the annual budget performance report whether the year went well or badly.
The seven programmes address four problems the State has been open about for a decade. Too many children of basic-school age are not in school at all. Girls fall out of the system faster than boys, and the gap opens at the move from primary into junior secondary. A large body of learners sits in the Qur'anic school system with no route into literacy, numeracy or a trade. And more than a third of adults in the State cannot read and write functionally in any language.
Enrolment across the State has moved from 2,498,000 in 2019/2020 to 3,400,000 in 2025/2026, and 596,000 of that increase is girls. That is the single clearest measure that the programmes below are having an effect. It is not the same as saying the problem is solved.
The programme budget
7
Programmes
Each with a lead board and a published measure
₦109.3bn
Committed this year
Of a ₦168.4bn education budget
27.4%
Of the State budget
Committed to education in total
2.18m
Largest single reach
Free and compulsory basic education
The seven programmes
Ordered by the year each began. Follow any card for the eligibility rules, the delivery detail and the measures.
Free and Compulsory Basic Education
₦46.8B · since 2005
No fee, no levy and no uniform charge for any pupil in a public basic school in Kano State, from Primary 1 through JSS 3.
Learn moreGirl-Child Education Initiative
₦9.4B · since 2016
Conditional cash transfers, female teacher recruitment, separate sanitation and a back-to-school drive for girls who left at transition.
Learn moreAlmajiri and Tsangaya Integration
₦12.6B · since 2019
Bringing Tsangaya learners into a curriculum that keeps Qur'anic study intact and adds literacy, numeracy, a trade, feeding and health screening.
Learn moreAdult and Non-Formal Literacy
₦3.1B · since 1992
Basic literacy, post-literacy and vocational classes in 30 centres and 640 community circles, taught in Hausa and English.
Learn moreHome-Grown School Feeding
₦18.2B · since 2017
One hot meal a school day for every pupil in Primary 1 to Primary 3, cooked by 14,600 local caterers buying from Kano farmers.
Learn moreTeacher Professional Development
₦7.8B · since 2014
TRCN registration, subject-mastery clinics, school-based mentoring and the upgrading of Grade II and NCE teachers to a degree.
Learn moreSTEM and Digital Learning
₦11.4B · since 2021
Laboratory refits, 420 school ICT centres, a coding and robotics curriculum from JSS 1, and the annual Kano STEM Fair.
Learn moreLead, budget, reach and start year
Budget figures are the current financial year's appropriation, not cumulative spend. Beneficiary counts overlap — a Primary 2 girl in a public school is counted under free basic education, school feeding and the girl-child initiative — so the column does not add up to a population.
| Programme | Lead | Committed this year | Beneficiaries | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free and Compulsory Basic Education | SUBEB | ₦46,800,000,000 | 2,180,000 | 2005 |
| Girl-Child Education Initiative | Ministry — Directorate of Basic Education | ₦9,400,000,000 | 318,000 | 2016 |
| Almajiri and Tsangaya Integration | KSQISMB | ₦12,600,000,000 | 486,000 | 2019 |
| Adult and Non-Formal Literacy | Agency for Mass Education | ₦3,100,000,000 | 74,000 | 1992 |
| Home-Grown School Feeding | Ministry — Directorate of School Services | ₦18,200,000,000 | 1,460,000 | 2017 |
| Teacher Professional Development | Ministry — Directorate of Teacher Development | ₦7,800,000,000 | 78,000 | 2014 |
| STEM and Digital Learning | Science and Technical Schools Board | ₦11,400,000,000 | 264,000 | 2021 |
How progress is reported
Every programme reports against the same four questions: how many people it reached, what it cost per person reached, what changed in the indicator it exists to move, and what it failed to do. The answers go into the annual report and the budget performance report, and the underlying figures are published as open data.
The measurement backbone is the Annual School Census, taken in the sixth week of the first term in every school in the State. It is the source of the enrolment, attendance, staffing and infrastructure figures quoted on these pages, and it is why a figure here may differ slightly from one published by a partner using a household survey rather than a school return.
- Annual School Census — enrolment, attendance, staffing, infrastructure.
- Budget performance report — appropriation against release against spend.
- Independent verification by the development partner funding the window.
- The open data portal, where the underlying figures can be downloaded.
None of these programmes charges a beneficiary
No programme on this page requires a payment, an application fee, a facilitation payment or a contribution of any kind from the person benefiting. If you are asked for money to be enrolled in a class, to receive a cash transfer, to be fed, to be registered or to be placed, you are being defrauded.
Report it on +234 803 700 1420, to info@moe.kn.gov.ng, or at any local government education office. Give the programme, the place and the name if you have it.
Follow the money
Programme spend, releases and the census figures behind the measures are published in full.