The Federal Government has published a catalogue of 26 education initiatives introduced under President Bola Tinubu, ranging from student financing and teacher professionalisation to technical training, research commercialisation and campus infrastructure.
Education Minister Tunji Alausa presented the programmes in an A–Z document titled From Reform to Results, which he shared on his X account. The document frames the interventions under the Nigeria Education Sector Renewal Initiative and focuses on expanding access, strengthening institutions, promoting research and equipping young people with practical skills.
The most substantial single figure is the Nigerian Education Loan Fund. It has processed 1,659,853 applications and disbursed ₦372.62 billion to students in 319 institutions. Of that sum, ₦192.89 billion covered institutional fees while ₦179.73 billion went out as upkeep allowances.
The government also recorded an agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities that provides a 40 per cent increase in academic staff pay, revised allowances and improved welfare. Separately, the Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund has released ₦28 billion in financial assistance of up to ₦10 million each to 15,000 academic and non-academic staff across 153 public tertiary institutions.
Campus transport has been expanded through the deployment of 780 electric tricycles in 48 universities. The Diaspora BRIDGE programme, which links Nigerian experts abroad with local institutions, now has 1,141 registered experts and has reached 16,675 students in 107 tertiary institutions.
On the teaching workforce, 53,553 teachers have registered on the EduRevamp platform and 51,794 have signed up for the first cohort of the Accelerated Teacher Professionalisation Pathway. The government has committed ₦2 billion to the scheme, which aims to reach 250,000 teachers by 2027.
Technical and vocational education has been prioritised. The Free Technical Education initiative covers tuition, boarding, textbooks and uniforms in federal and selected state technical colleges; 38 of those colleges have been rehabilitated. The broader Technical and Vocational Education and Training programme has attracted more than 2.8 million applicants, verified 156,446 trainees, paid ₦65.7 billion in stipends and start-up support, and released ₦30.2 billion to training centres.
Girl-child education figures include 7.19 million girls benefiting from direct interventions across 21 states under the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment, and 3.7 million enrolled in junior and senior secondary schools. More than 422,720 girls have completed life-skills programmes, and over 10,000 schools have received improved classrooms, water and sanitation facilities and teaching materials.
The HOPE-Education programme, backed by $552 million from the World Bank, targets 29 million children, more than 500,000 teachers, 65,000 public schools and 10,000 non-formal learning centres.
Efforts against out-of-school children have reintegrated more than one million pupils, established 200 bilingual learning centres, trained 1,400 Tsangaya teachers and listed 13,000 classrooms for construction or rehabilitation.
Tertiary admissions rules have been adjusted by removing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination requirement for National Certificate in Education programmes and reviewing entry criteria for selected National Diploma courses. Enrolment in key health programmes has risen sharply: nursing from 28,000 to 115,000, medicine and dentistry from 5,000 to 12,000, and pharmacy from 3,644 to 7,419. ₦110 billion has been committed to rehabilitating 24 medical schools.
Research and innovation measures include the creation of Research, Innovation and Commercialisation Committees in universities, a National Laureate Prize with an annual fund of ₦365 million, and the Student Venture Capital Grant. The grant drew 30,639 registrations from 404 institutions; 65 finalists were selected and more than ₦2.5 billion has been disbursed to 45 student entrepreneurs, each eligible for up to ₦50 million in equity-free funding.
Digital and infrastructure projects include the mapping of more than 40 million learners and 215,000 schools on the National Education Data Infrastructure, the assignment of Learner National Identification Numbers to more than four million students (target 40 million by 2027), the deployment of 1,000 smart boards nationwide, and the onboarding of 111 tertiary institutions onto AWS Academy. Solar mini-grids have been installed in 37 federal universities and seven teaching hospitals, while 20 universities have received compressed natural gas refuelling stations. Fifty-eight of 63 federal universities, 37 of 41 federal polytechnics and 27 of 29 federal colleges of education are now on the Federal Tertiary Institutions Governance Portal.
Other listed measures include the reintroduction of the National Learning Assessment, a revised national curriculum that restores Nigerian History and strengthens Civic and Heritage Studies, the Inspire Live! platform offering live online lessons from Primary One to Senior Secondary School Three, the Digital Technical Academy (16,000 learners in its first cohort), and the Zero-Rated Education initiative aimed at reducing or eliminating data costs for approved educational platforms.
The ministry described the package as part of a broader effort to improve education delivery, strengthen institutional capacity and widen opportunities for Nigerian students and educators.
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