Tinubu’s Education Reforms Deliver N372bn Student Loans, 160,000 TVET Enrolments — APC Campaign Council

President Bola Tinubu’s reforms in the education sector have delivered N372.62 billion in student loans and over 160,000 technical and vocational enrolments, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has said.

In a press statement on Tuesday, the Council said Tinubu’s reforms have expanded access to learning, improved teachers’ welfare, and stabilised the academic calendar across higher institutions.

According to the Federal Ministry of Education through its Nigerian Education Sector Renewal Initiative, NESRI, 2026 report, the government’s interventions cover basic and secondary education, technical and vocational training, and tertiary education, focusing on six priority areas including technical and vocational education, science and medical sciences, out-of-school children, girl-child education, digitalisation and education quality assurance.

The Council highlighted that the Federal Government allocated a record N3.52 trillion to education in the 2026 budget and secured $552 million for the HOPE-EDU programme targeting 29 million children, over 500,000 teachers and 65,000 public schools.

The BESDA programme has returned over one million out-of-school children to learning, trained 1,400 Tsangaya teachers and established 200 bilingual centres across 17 northern states, while the AGILE programme has reached 7.19 million girls with 3.7 million enrolled in secondary schools.

On curriculum reform, the administration introduced a revised national curriculum that reintroduces Nigerian History and strengthens Civic and Heritage Studies, restored National Learning Assessment, and under EduRevamp registered 53,553 teachers with 51,794 joining the first cohort of the Accelerated Teacher Professionalisation Pathway, ATPP, backed by N2 billion targeting 250,000 teachers by 2027.

The TVET scheme has attracted over 2.8 million applications, with 156,446 verified trainees receiving free training, monthly stipends and start-up support, with over N65.7 billion disbursed to trainees and N30.2 billion to training centres, while 38 technical colleges were rehabilitated with free tuition, boarding, textbooks and uniforms.

NELFUND has processed 1,659,853 student loan applications and disbursed N372.62 billion, comprising N192.89 billion for tuition and N179.73 billion for upkeep allowances across 319 tertiary institutions.

The administration resolved the long-standing ASUU dispute with 40% increase in academic staff remuneration, while the Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund disbursed N28 billion to 15,000 workers across 153 public institutions offering up to N10 million loans.

The Federal Government is also investing N110 billion to rehabilitate 18 federal medical schools, with nursing enrolment rising from 81,480 in 2023 to 114,300 in 2025, 20 STEM-focused tertiary institutions approved, N365 million annually for research through National Laureate Prize, and over N2.5 billion disbursed to 45 student entrepreneurs via Student Venture Capital Grant of up to N50 million equity-free funding.

Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, said “Our measure of success is not merely the amount of money allocated to education or the number of programmes introduced. It is the difference these interventions make in the lives of our children, students, teachers and institutions.”