The federal government has announced plans to roll out a nationwide household survey to generate updated, reliable data on the number of out-of-school children in the country.
This becomes necessary, as Tunji Alausa, the minister of education, admitted that current estimates, ranging between 15 and 20 million, no longer reflect the true scale of the problem.
Alausa disclosed this on Wednesday at the 2026 Annual Education Summit organised by the Education Correspondents Association of Nigeria (ECAN) in Abuja, themed ‘Three Years of the Tinubu Administration: Assessing Reforms, Progress and Challenges in Nigeria’s Education Sector.’
The minister disclosed that the ministry would work with the National Bureau of Statistics on the exercise, positioning it as part of a broader push to anchor education policy and funding decisions in verifiable data rather than outdated assumptions.
Besides, Alausa said that the federal government interventions have returned more than one million out-of-school children to
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