By Uzair Adam Imam
Bayero University, Kano (BUK), in collaboration with the Civil Society Action Coalition for All (CSACEFA), organised a one-day capacity-building training on education budget tracking and analysis.
The event, titled “Education Budget Tracking and Analysis Tools”, took place at the Centre for Gender Studies, Bayero University, on Sunday.
One of the organisers, the President of the Kano State Accountability Forum on Education, Professor Muhammad Bello Shitu, said the purpose of the event was to enlight people on issues related to the education budget.
Professor Shitu stated that their intention was to help “the practitioners and civil society actors to have knowledge and skills of budget analysis as well as budget tracking.”
Also speaking after the event, Dr Auwal Halilu lamented the rising number of out-of-school children in Kano State in recent times.
He stated that “However, with the coming of the new government, which claims to top education on their priority list, we are hopeful that things will change,” he added.
Dr Halilu added that the issue of the rising number of out-of-school children in Kano state, which reached over 1.4 million, is alarming and should be addressed instantly.
The event had converged many educationalists, social and political analysts, as well as civil society activists who came from all walks of Kano to grace the event.