THE MINISTER of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has reiterated the federal government’s commitment to integrate 10 million out-of-school children.
Alausa stated this at the third edition of the 2025 Ministerial Press Briefing Session in Abuja on Thursday.
On bold commitments to increase access, improve quality and enhance education systems for foundational learning, he said the ministry was working on a clear strategy to improve the country’s educational sector.
According to him, “between now and 2027, we are going to reconstruct 195,000 classrooms across the nation.
“With regards to infrastructure, between now and 2027, we will need to raise 195,000 classrooms across the nation.
“We will install 28, 000 toilets, 22,900 boreholes across other schools in the country.
“We will construct about 7,000 new new classrooms. And, as we do this with the provision of learning and teaching materials by organising 103 million textbooks,” he said.
Speaking on vocational and technical training in schools, the minister explained that President Bola Tinubu had approved N120 billion as start up for students’ entrepreneurial mode.
He said that the country is presently focusing on value chain in technical education where practical education would be given to train artisans.
He explained that dual mode of training would be given which would offer students to spend three days in school, one day for gigantic training and one day in the workshop.
On the abandoned national library project, Alausa said President Tinubu had committed about N 40 billion to commence work on site thereby supporting academic and research needs.
He added that the ministry had i itiated key committee on national education policy, national language policy and national almajiri policy reviews. (NAN)
