The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has remained the most consistent education body in Nigeria when it comes to the provision of data and statistics on its operations. Every year for the last six years, through livestreaming of its annual policy meeting...
Using 2022 school census figures from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) alongside population estimates for children aged 6–14, we calculated each state’s public-school share — the percentage of that age group enrolled in a public primary or junior...
By Sodiq Alabi One major issue that has agitated me over the last ten years is the quality of education in Nigeria’s public schools, especially at the primary level. I have watched the data worsen, watched committees form and dissolve, and watched promises made...
By Sodiq Alabi In 2016, nearly 91,000 Nigerian children sat the national entrance examination for unity school places. By 2025, that number had dropped to under 65,000. The schools had not shrunk; there are, in fact, more of them now than ever. The population had not...
By Sodiq Alabi Jeleosinmi in Yoruba literally means “let the home rest,” and it was the term for early education or day care when I was growing up in the 1990s in Osun. I don’t know how long it’s been called that, but I have always thought it is apt as a term for the...
In 2015, 280,941 pupils were recorded in primary 6 in Ondo State, but the following year, only 44,504 pupils were on the register in the first year of junior secondary school (JSS 1). That is a transition rate of just 15 per cent. Across Nigeria, the journey from...
By Moses Akobi In January 2026, the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, announced that polytechnics would be empowered to award degrees in a bid to end the intractable HND-bachelor’s degree dichotomy. If followed through, the policy change marks the boldest...
By Moses Akobi In an effort to tackle Nigeria’s chronic teacher shortage and improve access to quality education, the Federal Government has launched Inspire Live(s)!, an online, real-time learning initiative. This ambitious programme seeks to harness technology to...
By Sodiq Alabi In September 1999, the newly inaugurated democratic president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo headed to Sokoto state to launch the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme. The UBE was a follow-on to the Universal Primary Education (UPE) programme then...
Home About Us Services Blog Contact Get Started By Sodiq Alabi I spent the past few days immersed in the 2025 Transforming Learning and Skills Development in Africa report, jointly produced by the African Union Commission, UNICEF, and UNESCO. At 190 pages, the report...
