Kano State’s second-quarter budget report shows its Agency for Mass Education recorded no capital spending through June against ₦1.45 billion budgeted for programs serving out-of-school children and adult learners.
The report lists an original 2026 capital allocation of ₦1,453,626,889.34 and zero expenditure year to date through June. The figure applies only to capital spending; it does not show whether the agency paid salaries or other recurring costs.
Among the budgeted projects are 20 mobile learning centers for out-of-school children, six model vocational skills classes, 20 girl-child classes and a mass-literacy campaign for adults. The report records no spending against these projects through the first half and does not identify beneficiaries reached by June.
Daily Post reported Oct. 26 that the Kwankwasiyya Movement asked the state to disclose how much of the allocation had been released by June and provide details about projects and beneficiaries. The outlet said the statement was signed by spokesperson Dr. Habibu Sale Mohammed. It quoted the movement saying Kano First should be “measured by results, not rhetoric.”
An earlier EconoTimes comparison of education spending across 34 states put Kano’s total first-half education outlay at ₦99.23 billion, a broader measure than this agency’s capital expenditure.
The agency’s 2025 year-end report recorded ₦37,056,000 in capital spending against a final allocation of ₦716,377,674.19, or 5.2%. The previous year’s second-quarter report also showed no capital expenditure through June; its year-end report later recorded full-year capital expenditure.
Kano declared an education emergency June 8, 2024. In November 2025, the state said it had appointed 2,000 education-sector staff, including 1,600 school watchmen and 400 mathematics teachers. That announcement did not address this agency’s capital execution.
The 2026 second-quarter report gives no reason for the zero expenditure. Kano’s schedule calls for quarterly updates within 30 days of quarter-close, making the third-quarter report the next measure of whether the agency started spending in the second half.
