The Katsina Government says it has concluded all necessary arrangements to recruit an additional 1,500 teachers or even more this year to enhance teaching and learning within the basic education sector of the state.

The Executive Chairman of the State Universal Educational Board, Kabir Magaji, disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Channels Television in his office in the Katsina State Capital on Thursday.

He announced that the state governor, Dikko Radda, has also approved the rehabilitation of 340 schools across the 34 LGAs, where 10 schools will be renovated in each of the LGAs.

Magaji explained that the approval was granted at the tail end of the year 2025, where construction had already commenced.

He also announced the government’s plans to construct 30 new junior secondary schools across the three senatorial districts of Katsina, Daura, and Funtua.

“Some of these schools are going to be vocational schools because of the recent training of moving from theoretical learning to practical learning, in which students either complete their junior or senior secondary education before transiting into tertiary institutions,” he explained.

He therefore called on parents and caregivers in the semi-urban and rural communities to wake up and use the opportunity given by the present state administration to ensure that their children get western education.

“The administration has provided adequate learning environments. Recently, the state government introduced allowances for teachers teaching in the hard-to-reach areas,” he recalled.

He called on members of the community to safeguard school structures, furnitures and water facilities within the schools.

Successes in 2025

The SUBEB chairman, while highlighting some of the successes recorded in the basic education sector of the school in 2025, noted that the state government has done so much in improving the teaching and learning within the basic education sector.

This, he said, focused on the expansion of classrooms, school rehabilitation, and the procurement of books worth N346 million, which have been distributed across primary schools.

“We have also procured instruction materials worth N324 million,” he added.

He explained that the state government has trained 18,000 teachers across the state and provided them with 20,000 tablets procured by the government for them to teach basic science and English language subjects in primary schools.

“We procured seven Volkswagen Golf vehicles and handed them over to the quality assurance unit of the SUBEB for a monitoring exercise. We procured 70 motorcycles and distributed them to primary school teachers who are teaching in the hard-to-reach areas.

“Besides the 18,000 teachers’ cumulative training, another set of 10,000 teachers were trained on mathematics, English, Islamic studies, history, and so on,” he said. (Channels TV)