FG launches nationwide learning assessment to tackle learning poverty

The federal government has intensified efforts to address Nigeria’s learning crisis with the commencement of a nationwide assessment designed to evaluate pupils’ literacy, numeracy and cognitive abilities as part of broader reforms to improve the quality of education across the country.
Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, said the exercise would generate reliable data to guide evidence-based reforms and help reverse the country’s growing learning poverty.
Alausa spoke to journalists on Friday after monitoring the National Learning Assessment at Government Secondary School, Kuje; Government Junior Secondary School, Kuje Central; and Topaz Model Primary School, Kango, in the Federal...