In a bid to enhance quality education, Kano State Government KNSG has sent a powerful delegation for a study tour to Kwara State on Learning Poverty Control Initiative (KWARALEARN).
Kwara State is one of the pioneering states in the implementation of the Learning Poverty Control Approach through the NewGlobe-supported KwaraLEARN initiative.
Leading the delegation, the State Commissioner of Education Dr. Ali Haruna Makoda disclosed that the visit followed engagements by officials of the state ministry of education with the NewGlobe during the World Education Summit in May 2025 in London, where Nigeria’s innovative responses to learning poverty were presented at the apex education summit.
Dr. Ali Makoda explained that the tour was therefore aimed at gaining first-hand knowledge of the operational framework of the KwaraLEARN initiative to launch a similar initiative tagged KanONE.
Makoda stressed that during the tour, his team observed the practical application of NewGlobe-supported education reforms in Kwara state, adding that the tour would assist in exploring the possibility of replicating similar digital learning management tools in Kano State.
” It is a very good effort by the administration of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf to improve the teaching and learning process in Kano by applying the NewGlobe Reforms as it has been fruitfully implemented in Kwara State.
” During our visit to two intervention schools under the KwaraLEARN program, we observed the use of e-tablets by teachers for lesson delivery based on standardised daily lesson plans, where real-time student data collection, lesson tracking and teacher performance monitoring were also demonstrated ” he explained.
Receiving the delegation in his office, the Executive Chairman State Universal Basic Education, Kwara State Professor Raheem Shehu Adaramaja briefed the Kano team on the implementation challenges and solutions of the new reform.
He discussed and shared experience with delegation on the issue of cost effectiveness, the project sustainability and the need for support supervision by trained Schools Support Officers (SSOs).
The delegation later had a strategic dialogue with the Kwara state Commissioner for basic education and human capital development Dr. Lawal Olalekon Olohungbebe, where key features of KwaraLEARN were also discussed.
Other Members of the Kano State Delegation as led by the Commissioner include the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education Alhaji Bashir Baffa Muhammed, the Executive Chairman, Kano SUBEB Alhaji Yusuf Kabeer and the Director of Planning, Research and Statistics, Ministry of Education Yusha’u Hamza.
The study tour to Kwara State was successful in exposing the Kano State education leadership to a functional and innovative model in addressing learning poverty.