Kaduna govt unveils school policies to boost education

The Kaduna State Government has unveiled two key policy documents aimed at transforming the education sector and strengthening security in schools across the state.

The documents, focusing on the annual school census and school safety, were designed to enhance data-driven education planning and provide safer learning environments in response to the rising insecurity in Nigeria.

The two documents are ‘Annual School Census 2024 to 2025’ and ‘Kaduna State Policy on Safety, Security and Violence Free Schools.’

Speaking at the dissemination workshop on the two policy documents in Kaduna on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, the Kaduna State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Abubakar Sani-Sambo, stated that the safety and security policy would provide a conducive and safe environment for teachers and learners.

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Sani-Sambo said: “The implication is that the state is setting the pace for the country and the expectation is that the quality and standards of education will rise.

“Quality over the past two years has started improving and we want to see that in the next two years, the quality will even go higher so that other states can emulate the good example.”

The Project Coordinator for the Reaching Out-of-School Children (ROOSC) Initiative in Kaduna State, Ezra Angai, explained that the policies were being widely disseminated with support from UNICEF.

“We’re ensuring that these reforms are not only documented and domesticated but embedded into the system,” Angai said.

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