The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Katsina State chapter, has threatened to institute legal action against the state government for revoking the operational licenses of its members.
The state government, through the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, has terminated the operational licenses of all private and community schools in the state and ordered fresh applications.
The government also reviewed the license application, registration, annual renewal, and school upgrade fees, but warned the affected schools against increasing school fees without the ministry’s approval.
However, the state Chairman of NAPPS, Mansur Sani-Jibia, in a recent interview, stated that the association will take the state government to court if it fails to revise what he termed a blanket revocation of their licenses.
He went further to explain that the government has ordered private and community schools to pay a fresh license application fee of N50,000, a registration fee of N250,000, and fees of N170,000 and N100,000 for those in urban, semi-urban, and rural centres.
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