Nigeria’s push towards digital education is gaining momentum, but a stubborn and deeply rooted problem continues to hold schools back: unreliable electricity. Across urban centres and rural communities alike, the promise of EdTech remains largely unfulfilled, not because of a…
Nigeria is at a defining point in its education journey, and the proposed National EdTech Strategy may well become the backbone of a truly unified digital school system. For decades, the country’s education landscape has been marked by fragmentation, uneven…
In today’s rapidly changing world, educational certificates are more than just paper or digital files. They are passports to jobs, professional credibility and social mobility. But a quiet threat is eroding trust in these credentials on a global scale. Fake…
In recent years, educators across the world have begun using data to improve learning outcomes. One of the most promising areas is learning analytics. Schools and universities now gather enormous amounts of information about their students from digital platforms, attendance…
Some Nigerians living in India have expressed serious concern about what they claim to be an increase in racial profiling and police brutality. They bemoaned the difficulties in regularising their visas and the exorbitant renewal costs, which they claimed had…
Across universities in the United States and beyond, a quiet but significant transformation is taking place in how students are assessed during exams. Traditional take-home assignments and unsupervised online tests are gradually losing their place as institutions confront a growing…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) has threatened to shut down public universities across the country if the Federal Government of Nigeria does not immediately apply the recently approved compensation structure for university professors. The union’s president, Christopher Piwuna, issued…
Nigeria is facing a quiet but deeply consequential crisis, one that is unfolding inside overcrowded classrooms and under-resourced schools across the country. At the centre of it is a widening shortage of teachers, especially at the foundational primary school level,…
BUK expels 171 students over falsified admission credentials and academic dishonesty The news coming out of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) serves as a sobering reminder of the pressures and pitfalls within our tertiary education system. In a decisive move to…
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In Nigeria today, smartphones and data plans are almost everywhere. Young people from Lagos to Kano, Abuja to Port Harcourt have learnt to navigate digital realities in ways that would have been unimaginable even a decade ago. Scores of students…
In classrooms, homes and public spaces from Lagos to Maiduguri, the promise of online learning is colliding with a harsh reality for millions of Nigerians: unstable and slow internet. As education in the country increasingly shifts towards digital tools and…
Nigeria’s education system is in the spotlight as teachers, parents and policymakers debate what young people should be learning about technology. Across classrooms, there is growing recognition that digital skills are essential for students in the 21st century. As global…
Across staff rooms, lecture halls, and WhatsApp groups for educators, one topic keeps surfacing with urgency: artificial intelligence. Tools like ChatGPT are reshaping how knowledge is created, shared, and assessed globally. Yet for many Nigerian teachers, keeping pace with this…
The conversation around artificial intelligence in Nigeria’s education sector is no longer theoretical. It is happening in real time, inside classrooms, on mobile phones, and increasingly, in the quiet spaces where students prepare for critical examinations like WAEC and JAMB.…
Across campuses and secondary schools in Nigeria, a quiet shift is unfolding. It is not loud, it is not officially acknowledged, and in many cases, it is not fully understood. Yet it is already reshaping how students prepare for and…
