The Federal Government has announced plans to carry out a fresh nationwide assessment of out-of-school children as part of efforts to obtain accurate data on the number of Nigerian children currently outside the formal education system.
Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed the development on Wednesday during the 2026 Annual Education Summit of the Education Correspondents Association of Nigeria (ECAN) held in Abuja.
According to the minister, the exercise will be conducted in partnership with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) through a comprehensive household survey across the country.
He said the initiative became necessary because existing figures being used to measure the scale of the problem may no longer reflect the current situation on the ground.
Alausa noted that the Federal Government wants reliable and verifiable data that will support policy formulation and help authorities direct resources to communities where educational challenges are most severe.
He explained that the survey would
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