How President Tinubu prioritises education with 88% score in 2yrs

Education has emerged as a defining pillar of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, with measurable reforms and bold policy decisions reshaping Nigeria’s learning landscape.

In just two years, President Tinubu’s education agenda has earned an impressive 88 percent performance score, reflecting strategic investments, expanded access, and renewed focus on quality and innovation across the sector.

According to the Federal Ministry of Education quarterly report sighted by BusinessDay, the federal government’s success card includes “Significantly increase education spending from 0.5 to 24.5 percent of government expenditure over the next 10 years, guarantee and enforce nine years of compulsory education for all children, including marginalised groups such as Tsangaya and nomadic learners.”

Other landmark performances of the President Tinubu’s administration are expanding access to primary, secondary and tertiary education, with targeted programmes to raise transition ratios and establish new institutions.

Besides, in the federal government’s push to position education as a critical sector for reforms, the President Tinubu administration introduced a national core curriculum, enhanced teacher training and improved infrastructure and working conditions for teachers.

The Federal Ministry of Education recently partnered with the National Security for Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to improve the security and safety of our schools via a real-time tracking system for school safety.

In the forefront of this collaboration, the NSCDC has unveiled a platform with 15,000 schools registered and has received data on 141,000 geolocated schools from the FME’s d-nemis platform. Additionally, the FME is establishing a school safety department to support the security framework and infrastructure of all schools in the country.

Tunji Alausa, the minister of education, told BusinessDay that under the ministry’s Education Public-Private (ePPP) Framework, the FME partners with UK Funded Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria (PLANE), Telecommunication companies, including MTN and Airtel, to enhance professional development and teaching.

“The pilot will provide 8,000 teachers across each geopolitical zone with zero-rated internet access,” he noted.

The ministry also through UBEC, deployed over 1000 smart boards to federal and state basic education schools nationwide, to help equip teachers and students with future-ready skills.

In November 2025, the Federal Ministry of Education unveiled the federal tertiary institutions governance transparency portal (FTIGP) as a unified platform for tracking and analysing key performance and funding metrics across Nigerian tertiary education institutions, universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.

Current data shows that 47 out of the 67 federal universities, 35 out of the 39 polytechnics and 25 out of the 30 colleges of education are to be onboarded on the portal.

The Federal Ministry of Education has also disbursed N2.97 billion in stipends to 160,000 young Nigerians and N4.6 billion to skills training centres/TVET centres enrolled on the programme.

Besides, the ministry distributed 240 electric tricycles and 12 solar-powered charging stations to 12 universities across each geopolitical zone to support student welfare and reduce campus transportation by 70 percent.

Early this year, the federal government and the Academic Staff Support Union (ASSU) reached a new agreement with a 40 percent upward review of academic emoluments to put to an end the impasse between both parties, which had left students as victims; the agreement is subject to negotiation every three years.

Similar agreements are also being drawn up for polytechnics and colleges of education.

An 88 percent rating within two years underscores significant progress in repositioning Nigeria’s education sector under President Tinubu’s leadership.

Yet, sustaining momentum will require consistent funding, accountability, and stakeholder collaboration. If the current pace is maintained, education could well become the defining legacy of his administration.

Charles Ogwo is a proactive journalist, driving education, and business innovations for over 10 years.

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