E-SERVICES
Services for parents, schools and teachers
Nine services, each of them started and tracked online, with a published fee and a published turnaround. Most of what a parent needs costs nothing at all.
One counter, nine services
Everything the Kano State Ministry of Education does for the public passes through this page. A parent enrolling a six-year-old in Primary 1, a head teacher moving a pupil to another school, a proprietor applying to open a school, a graduate seeking a teaching licence and a candidate chasing a result all begin here, and all of them can finish without a visit to the Secretariat.
Each service below carries three published facts: who may apply, what it costs and how long the Ministry has to answer. The turnaround is counted in working days from the day a complete application is received. An incomplete application is returned with the missing item named, and the clock starts again when it comes back.
Where a service is free, it is free at every stage. Where a fee applies, that fee is published here and is paid to the Ministry through the online channel attached to your application. No sum outside the schedule on this page is lawfully due from you.
The service counter this session
9
Online services
All startable without a visit
6 of 9
Free of charge
No fee at any stage
5 days
Shortest turnaround
Transfer certificate
44
Offices in support
One in every local government area
Choose a service
Every card names the fee and the working days allowed before the Ministry must answer.
Check a result
No charge · Immediate
Enter an examination number and see the result for BECE, WASSCE, SSCE, the Common Entrance or the Qualifying Examination. No password and no agent required.
Learn moreAdmission into a public school
No charge · 15 working days
Primary 1 at age six, JSS 1 on the Common Entrance placement, SS 1 on the Qualifying Examination, and a Placement Test for a child transferring in.
Learn moreTransfer certificate
No charge · 5 working days
Move a pupil from one school to another, inside Kano State or out of it, with the attendance and assessment record travelling with the child.
Learn moreSchool approval and licensing
From ₦150,000 · 45 working days
New approval, renewal, change of proprietorship, change of name, upgrade of level, an additional stream or an orderly closure, all handled by PVIB.
Learn moreTeacher registration and licensing
₦12,000 · 30 working days
Registration with the Teachers Registration Council and the State teaching licence that every person teaching in a Kano classroom is required to hold.
Learn moreScholarship
No charge · 60 working days
State and sponsored awards for senior secondary, technical and tertiary study, paid into the student's own bank account each session.
Learn moreBursary
No charge · 20 working days
A smaller termly grant for pupils in public senior secondary, science and technical schools who are means tested and nominated by their head teacher.
Learn moreTextbooks and school materials
No charge · 30 working days
How a public school requisitions textbooks, teachers' guides, exercise books, furniture and laboratory consumables from the central and zonal stores.
Learn moreSchool inspection
No charge · Report in 15 days
The twelve statutory criteria, the five verdicts, how a school prepares for a visit, and how a verdict is appealed.
Learn moreComplaint or concern
No charge · Acknowledged in 3 days
An unlawful charge, a result not released, a child refused a transfer certificate or a school operating without approval. Every report is logged and answered.
Learn moreHow an online application works
The same five steps whichever service you have chosen.
Create an account, once
Sign in at /user/login, or create an account with a phone number and an email address. One account carries every application you make, and a parent may attach more than one child to it. Registration is free.
Complete the form for the service
Each form asks only for what the law requires. Partly completed forms are saved as you go, so a poor connection does not cost you the work already done. Nothing is submitted until you press submit.
Upload the supporting documents
Photograph or scan each document named on the service page. Anything legible is accepted, up to 5 MB a file. Originals are sighted only once, at the point of collection or at the inspection visit, never in advance.
Track the reference
Submission returns a reference of the form APP/2026/00184. Quote it in every enquiry. Your account shows the stage the application has reached, the officer holding it and the date it must be answered by, and an SMS follows each change of stage.
Collect the outcome
An approval, a licence, an admission letter, a transfer certificate or an award letter is issued in your account as a document you can print, and the paper original is available from the issuing office or the local government education office named in the notification.
Fees and turnarounds in full
The complete published schedule. A turnaround runs in working days from the receipt of a complete application.
| Service | Who it is for | Fee | Statutory turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| Check a result | Any candidate, parent or guardian | No charge | Immediate |
| Admission into a public school | Parent or guardian of a child of school age | No charge | 15 working days from the close of the window |
| Transfer certificate | Parent or guardian, through the releasing school | No charge | 5 working days |
| New school approval | Proprietor of a private, community or mission school | ₦150,000 | 45 working days |
| Annual inspection and licence maintenance | Every approved private school, each session | ₦45,000 | 21 working days |
| Teacher registration and licence | Every person teaching in a Kano school | ₦12,000 first registration | 30 working days |
| Teaching licence renewal | A registered teacher, every three years | ₦7,500 | 21 working days |
| Scholarship | Kano State indigenes in approved study | No charge | 60 working days from the close of the cycle |
| Bursary | Pupils in public senior secondary, science and technical schools | No charge | 20 working days |
| Textbook and materials requisition | Head teacher of a public school | No charge | 30 working days |
| School inspection | Every school; a parent may also request one | No charge | Report published within 15 working days of the visit |
| Complaint or concern | Anyone | No charge | Acknowledged in 3, resolved in 15 working days |
No officer may collect money outside this schedule
The fees on this page are the whole of what the Ministry charges for these services. No officer, inspector, head teacher, agent or middleman is authorised to collect a naira outside them, in cash or otherwise, whether it is described as a processing fee, a facilitation fee, a form fee or a follow-up fee.
Admission into a public school, a transfer certificate, a bursary nomination, a textbook requisition and an inspection visit are free at every stage. If money is asked of you for any of them, pay nothing and report it on 0800 MOE KANO, by email to info@moe.kn.gov.ng, or through the feedback form, quoting the name of the school or office and the date.
Before you start
Do I need an account to check a result?
I have no computer. Can I still apply?
What happens if the Ministry misses the published turnaround?
My documents are in Hausa or Arabic. Is that a problem?
Can somebody else apply for me?
How do I know a notification is genuine?
Start where you are
Check a result without signing in, or create an account once and use it for every application you will ever make to the Ministry.