By Jabiru Hassan
Kano State’s education reforms were highlighted at an international parliamentary forum in the United Kingdom, where education stakeholders discussed efforts to improve literacy, teacher recruitment and access to schooling in the state.
The discussions took place on Thursday, July 23, 2026, during an International Parliamentary Forum on Reading Revolution at the House of Lords, Westminster, London. The event was supported by Universal Learning Solutions (ULS), an organisation implementing the Jolly Phonics Project in Nigeria.
According to a statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, the Chief Executive Officer of ULS, Gary Foxcroft, commended Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s administration for its investment in education and ongoing reforms.
Representing the governor, Technical Adviser on Education Reform Haladu Mohammed said education remained a major priority of the administration. He said Kano had about five million pupils, more than 8,000 formal schools and over 14,000 Qur’anic schools, which the government was working to integrate into the formal education system.
Mohammed said the state still faced a challenge involving more than one million out-of-school children and required about 84,000 additional teachers. He added that about 20,000 teachers had been recruited in the past three years.
He also outlined the government’s Teacher Development Policy and Accelerated Basic Education Programme, designed to address teacher shortages and provide learning opportunities for over-age out-of-school children. Governor Yusuf, in a message delivered at the forum, reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to strengthening education in Kano.
