The Katsina State government has revoked the operational licences of all private and community schools in the state, effective August 13, 2025.
The decision, announced by the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Zainab Musa-Musawa, forms part of the state’s education reform agenda aimed at strengthening quality assurance, standardisation, and effective regulation of teaching and learning.
In a circular issued through the ministry’s Public Relations Officer, Sani Danjuma, the government directed school proprietors to submit payment receipts for application and registration fees for new licences to the Department of Private and Community Schools. The payments, it stressed, must be made exclusively into the state’s single treasury account on or before September 30, 2025.
“The ministry hereby notifies the public, proprietors and administrators of all private and community schools that all the previously issued operational licences have been officially terminated,” the circular partly read.
It recalled that on June 2, 2025, the ministry held a sensitisation session for stakeholders regarding the new policy, which now guides private and community schools across Katsina. The circular also confirmed that the state government had revised licence application, registration, annual renewal, and school upgrade fees in line with its reform policy.
Commissioner Musa-Musawa reaffirmed the ministry’s commitment to safeguarding children’s education by upholding global best practices, adding that the revised fees must not trigger arbitrary increases in tuition without official approval.
She noted that details of school categorisations and a breakdown of the new fees would be formally communicated to the National Association of Proprietors of Private and Community Schools.
The state government assured that schools are to continue normal operations while the new registration and renewal process is underway.
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