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October 30, 2025

Crisis and Reform: The current state of Nigeria’s education sector

Nigeria’s education sector finds itself at a crossroads. With Africa’s largest youth population and an ambitious national agenda for growth, the promise of education as a driver of socio-economic...

October 6, 2025

Saving Nigeria’s education from fire-brigade policies

Nigeria’s education system, already gasping for breath, now faces another round of confusion and disarray under the current Minister of Education — a medical doctor whose policies, though well-intentioned,...

September 29, 2025

EDITORIAL: Save the Nigerian teacher, save the education sector

Nigeria’s education sector is embattled on every side. And this is hardly new. Burdened by poor funding, infrastructure deficit, shortage of qualified and trained teachers, outdated curriculum and others,...

September 27, 2025

Time to give private school teachers a voice

The story of Nigeria’s education system is one of ambition, reform, and recurring setbacks. A pivotal moment came in 1973, when a national seminar laid the groundwork for the...

September 16, 2025

UBEC and the struggle for quality basic education

Education has long been described as the bedrock of national development, yet Nigeria continues to grapple with a struggling foundation. At the center of addressing this challenge is the...

September 15, 2025

Education reform should go beyond banning graduation parties

September 15, 2025

EDITORIAL: Now that education has state governments’ attention

Since the Sokoto State Government on July 24, 2025 announced a ban on all sign-out celebrations for graduating secondary school students in both public and private schools in the...

August 6, 2025

Reforms Matter: How UBEC unlocks frontiers for basic education

Over time, Nigeria’s basic education sector has trudged along under the weight of outdated systems, bureaucratic bottlenecks, and a disconnect between policy and actual impact. The stories were familiar:...

July 28, 2025

How Alausa’s STEMM-Up and CBT policies are rewriting education

When Dr. Tunji Alausa was reassigned from Minister of State for Health to head the Ministry of Education in under a year, it sparked more than a few raised...

July 22, 2025

What’s going on with education in Nigeria?

Walk into almost any public school in Nigeria, and you feel the weight of history pressing down on the desks. Much of the system still operates to the rhythm...

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