Assessment of the Effect of Infrastructural Facilities on the Delivery of Basic Education in Municipal and Minjibir Local Government Education Authorities, Kano State (2015 – 2023)
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: For many decades, education remains a tool for national development and maintenance of the society. It is a weapon of acquiring skills, relevant knowledge and habits for survival in the changing world. The main objective of the paper is to assess the effect of Infrastructural facilities on the delivery of Universal Basic Education Programme (UBE) in Municipal and Minjibir Local Government Education Authorities (LGEAs) of Kano State, Nigeria. The Kano State from 2015-2022 spent the sum of N 3.4 billion to construct over 407 classrooms and renovated more than 700 dilapidated ones, construct over 460 toilets, provided 40, 000 pupils seats as well constructed 200 boreholes in schools across the State, aimed at ensure the delivery of Basic Education in terms of pupils enrolment, retention, completion and transition, yet delivery of basic education is perform below expectations. Documentary research was employed and allows the researcher to explore documented data on educational infrastructure in Municipal and Minjibir LGEAs of Kano states in such a way that meaningful inference could be drawn. Two LGEAs were selected from Kano Central zone, Kano Municipal was selected from the urban, while Minjibir was also selected from the rural Local Government. The Executive chairperson SUBEB Kano, 2 Education secretaries, and 2 PTAs Chairmen, as well as SBMCs Chairmen from 2 LGEAs under study were interviewed purposively in order to achieve the objectives of the paper. The interview was analyzed thematically. The study was purely qualitative and relies on content analysis for the presentation and analysis of data to arrive at generalization and conclusions. The findings of the study indicates that due to inadequate number of schools, pupils can walk for almost 2 hours or 2 kilometers from one school to another which is against UBE Act 2004. However, classes, furniture’s, toilets and sources of water were not provided adequately to correspond with continuous increase in enrolment. The study suggested that concerted efforts should be made by the government of both UBEC, SUBEB and LGEAs to construct more schools. Also, classrooms blocks should be provided to commensurate with exponential increase in enrolment. Pupils and teachers furniture’s should be provided to reduce pupil’s congestions and toilet as well as sources of water should be sufficiently provided to Municipal and Minjibir LGEAs of Kano State.
Institution: Federal University of Transportation, Daura
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7219606242