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UBEC Chief Demands Urgent Reforms to Fix Basic Education Emergency responders inspect Benue primary school after explosion injured pupils.

UBEC Chief Demands Urgent Reforms to Fix Basic Education

Otamere Gladness March 24, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria -The head of the Universal Basic Education Commission calls for immediate reforms to address deep-rooted...

Nigeria Ready to End Almajiri Crisis, Education Minister Declares Nigeria’s Education Minister unveiling the national education transparency platform

Nigeria’s Education Minister unveiling the national education transparency platform

Nigeria Ready to End Almajiri Crisis, Education Minister Declares

Mirian Gom March 1, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria is now better positioned to confront the long-standing crisis of Almajiri and out-of-school...

Oyo Education Reforms Return 65,000 Out-Of-School Children to Classrooms Oyo State Government crackdown on illegal mining

Oyo Education Reforms Return 65,000 Out-Of-School Children to Classrooms

Korede Abdullah February 27, 2026

IBADAN, Nigeria – Education reforms under the Oyo State Government bring more than 65,000 out-of-school children back...

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Out-of-School Children in North UNICEF officials and Faji residents at NTD town hall in Osun

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Out-of-School Children in North

Hussaini Ibrahim February 12, 2026

KANO, Nigeria – The United Nations Children’s Fund warns that millions of children in Northern Nigeria remain...

Nigeria’s Education Paradox: Rising Budgets, Insecurity and a Generation at Risk Nigerian pupils in a classroom amid education funding and security challenges in 2025

Nigerian pupils in a classroom amid education funding and security challenges in 2025

Nigeria’s Education Paradox: Rising Budgets, Insecurity and a Generation at Risk

Otamere Gladness January 17, 2026

Abuja, Nigeria – Nigeria entered 2025 promising a reset for its struggling education sector. Instead, the year...

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis? Out-of-school children sitting along a street in Northern Nigeria, highlighting the country’s education crisis.

Out-of-school children sitting along a street in Northern Nigeria, highlighting the country’s education crisis.

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis?

Mirian Gom January 16, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – A child who is not in school is not just missing lessons — they...

Nigeria, Qatar Form Strategic Alliance to Expand Alternative Education Nigerian education officials meet Qatari counterparts to discuss education partnership

Nigerian education officials meet Qatari counterparts to discuss education partnership

Nigeria, Qatar Form Strategic Alliance to Expand Alternative Education

Otamere Gladness November 27, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria and Qatar are advancing a new strategic partnership aimed at widening access to...

Broken Promises, Empty Classrooms: Why Northern Nigeria’s Schools Remain Unsafe Abandoned classroom in Zamfara State symbolising Nigeria’s school safety crisis.

Abandoned classroom in Zamfara State symbolising Nigeria’s school safety crisis.

Broken Promises, Empty Classrooms: Why Northern Nigeria’s Schools Remain Unsafe

Hussaini Ibrahim October 27, 2025

ZAMFARA, Nigeria – Eleven years after the world was jolted by the abduction of over 270 schoolgirls...

Kano, UK Group Partner to Cut Out-of-School Crisis Kano partners with Plan International to reduce out-of-school children.

Kano, UK Group Partner to Cut Out-of-School Crisis

Hussaini Ibrahim September 18, 2025

KANO, Nigeria- The Kano State Government has entered a strategic partnership with Plan International, a UK-funded programme,...

Out-of-School Children

UBEC Chief Demands Urgent Reforms to Fix Basic Education

Nigeria Ready to End Almajiri Crisis, Education Minister Declares

Oyo Education Reforms Return 65,000 Out-Of-School Children to Classrooms

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Out-of-School Children in North

Nigeria’s Education Paradox: Rising Budgets, Insecurity and a Generation at Risk

Nigeria’s Classroom Emergency: Who Should Pay for the North’s Out-of-School Children Crisis?

Nigeria, Qatar Form Strategic Alliance to Expand Alternative Education

Broken Promises, Empty Classrooms: Why Northern Nigeria’s Schools Remain Unsafe

Kano, UK Group Partner to Cut Out-of-School Crisis

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