KANO SHUTS DOWN 68 PRIVATE SCHOOLS

The Kano state Task Force on private schools has suspended 50 private
schools until they appear before the committee for clearance, while 18
were shut down indefinitely In a press conference held at Gidan
Murtala, Kano, the chairman of the Task Force Committee on Private
Schools, Alhaji Baba Abubakar Umar explained that the measure was
taken following the violation of the state private institutions 91
education law 203 which requires them to pay 10 percent termly fees as
their civic responsibility for the development of the state.
Other violations, he added are non refund of task force guidelines
forms for a technically long time, some schools run academic
programmes in dilapidated structures and untidy environment, and above
all, the ratio of NCE and degree bearing teachers fall short of any
standard.
Baba said; "Unfortunately it appears that 80 percent of private
institutions in the state are not interested in abiding by the law
that approved for their establishments.