Interestingly, in line with the administration new development priority, education sector received the lion share of the budget with N49.9 billion, which represented 25.23% of the total budget. The 2020 budget is less than the 2019 budget of N219 billion with N134 billion for capital projects and N88 billion for recurrent expenditure. As this newspaper also noted then, the Kano State education initiative is significant for the country for a number of reasons. The Kano State Government deserves a plaudit for this laudable initiative and courage to face the future. Despite all odds, Kano state is demonstrating that indeed education will, in the main, make a people easy to lead and impossible to enslave.

Source: The Guardian February 02, 2020 03:56 UTC