Congestion: Kaduna to build 90 schools in 2021

Kaduna State Ministry of Education said it will build new junior secondary schools across the state in 2021 to reduce congestion in class rooms.

The ministry said the new schools would be built with support from the World Bank under the ‎Adolescents Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project.

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The commissioner, Dr. Shehu Usman Muhammad, who disclosed this yesterday while fielding questions from newsmen in Kaduna, said the new schools would ease transition from primary to junior secondary level.

“I want to assure us that in 2021 with the support of the World Bank under AGILE project, we are building 90 new junior secondary schools attached to current primary schools that will ease transition from primary school to junior secondary schools,” he said.

Muhammad also said the state would convert all the Almajirai schools into model primary schools.

According to him, doing so would provide opportunity for the Almajirai to acquire both Islamic and western education.