Post by Ismail Auwal Garba (@ismail_auwal_garba)

I arrived at Gayawa Special Primary School in Kano at 8:00 a.m.

There was no teacher. No headteacher. No students.

The school only began to come alive around 10:00 a.m.

Inside one classroom, more than 200 pupils sat on a cracked floor under intense heat. Many had no desks. Some barely had enough space to place their books.

The school has no fence. Motorcycles, vehicles and residents move through the premises freely. Some classrooms do not even have roofs, making learning impossible whenever it rains.

What makes this even more troubling is that this school is less than 30 minutes from Kano Government House.

Two years after the declaration of a state of emergency in education, Gayawa Special Primary School raises an important question:

If this is the condition of a school so close to the seat of power, what is happening in schools farther away?

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