North records lowest literacy rates, despite…– Alausa
The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, said North-West and North-East regions have recorded the lowest literacy and numeracy rates nationwide despite receiving 80 percent of Nigeria’s education donor funding in the last 10 years. Alausa disclosed this on Monday during a roundtable session at the Education World Forum (EWF) in London, United Kingdom, where […]
Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa
The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, said North-West and North-East regions have recorded the lowest literacy and numeracy rates nationwide despite receiving 80 percent of Nigeria’s education donor funding in the last 10 years.
Alausa disclosed this on Monday during a roundtable session at the Education World Forum (EWF) in London, United Kingdom, where he engaged global education stakeholders on Nigeria’s foundational learning reforms.
He said newly consolidated education data from the National Education Data Initiative (NEDI) had exposed critical inefficiencies in past donor allocations and was now guiding a shift toward more evidence-based resource distribution.
“NEDI data revealed a key issue: 80% of donor funds in the last decade went to the North-West and North-East, yet those zones still have the lowest literacy and numeracy rates. We now have the data to redirect resources where they deliver results,” the minister said in a statement.
He explained that Nigeria was now restructuring its foundational learning architecture through a unified system that integrates formal and non-formal education under a single national standard.
He noted that both formal and non-formal learning systems now report into NEDI, enabling real-time monitoring from a single national dashboard.
Alausa added that 70 per cent of funding under Nigeria’s Partnership Compact with the Global Partnership for Education is now tied to measurable learning outcomes.
He stressed that Nigeria’s reform agenda is shifting focus from inputs to results, with the aim of significantly reducing learning poverty nationwide through a unified, accountable education system.