“A barn is only full when the seed is sown.” However, in Nigeria, many children start school this year with hand-me-down textbooks that are torn and scribbled on by older siblings. States such as Benue, Edo, Imo, Anambra, and Ondo are promoting reuse as a cost-saving measure, while the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) plans
The Founder and General Overseer of Omega Power Ministries (OPM), King Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere, has commissioned a new tuition-free school in Ado-Karu, Nasarawa State. The school, which was commissioned on Saturday, September 20, 2025, is the second OPM free school in the state and the 38th across Nigeria. King Chinyere reaffirmed that every Nigerian
The Mandate Secretary for Education in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr Danlami Hayyo, has enrolled his two children in Government Science Secondary School, Pyakasa, Maitama, for the 2025/2026 academic session. Speaking at the enrolment exercise, Hayyo said the decision reflected his confidence in the quality of public schools in the FCT. He credited recent
Governor Ademola Adeleke has announced that the Alternative High School for Girls in Osogbo will officially begin academic activities on September 22, 2025, as schools across the state resume for the first term. The school, built by Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and handed over to the state government in December 2024, is designed
Teachwise Family Daycare Ltd has launched educational programmes to improve access to early childhood education for underprivileged children in urban slums and rural communities. The organisation combines classroom preschools, mobile training units, and community partnerships to reach families who lack affordable early learning options. Its work focuses on three key areas: training teachers, supporting parents
The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) has introduced a new programme to help girls who dropped out of school in Kogi State return to learning. Called the Second Chance Education Programme, it offers academic opportunities, vocational training, and life skills for disadvantaged girls and young women across the state. The programme was
Over 5,000 out-of-school children have returned to the classroom, courtesy of Oando’s Foundational Learning Improvement Programme (FLIP), implemented under its LEARNOVATE strategy. Tonia Uduimoh, Head of the Oando Foundation, speaking at the foundation’s strategy dissemination activities held in Abuja recently, said the event marked the conclusion of the pilot phase and brought together education stakeholders
More than 5,000 children who had dropped out of school are back in classrooms after an intervention by the Oando Foundation. The initiative, part of the foundation’s Foundational Learning Improvement Programme (FLIP), was piloted in 60 schools across Ebonyi, Plateau and Sokoto States. It provided literacy and numeracy support for early learners, alongside remedial classes
An aid group has enrolled more than 6,500 out-of-school children in informal learning centres in Katsina State as part of efforts to tackle Nigeria’s education crisis. GOALPrime Organisation Nigeria said 6,588 children in Musawa Local Government Area had joined the scheme, which is funded by the UN-backed Education Cannot Wait initiative and run with Save
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has re-enrolled girls who initially dropped out of school in Sokoto. Speaking about the re-enrolment, Hon Abubakar Abud Amanawa, the School Based Management Committee Chairman of Denge-Shuni Local Government and Special Adviser on Industrial Development, said, “Our girls, once out of school, are now back in the classrooms, and
