Education Minister unveils reforms to tackle learning poverty, out-of-school crisis

The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has outlined strategies and reforms to tackle Nigeria’s learning poverty and out-of-school crisis under President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

At the 2025 Ministerial Briefing on Thursday in Abuja, Mr Alausa described Nigeria’s education crisis as a major obstacle to national development.

He said 45 million Nigerians are “learning poor,” unable to read age-appropriate texts and that the country has the second-highest number of…