Education

The 2021 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board examination was held from 19 June 2021 to 3 July 2021. Following the release of the JAMB result and the outcry regarding low scores, viral claims suggested that the board would hold a re-sit for candidates who scored less than 170 on 3 July 2021…

An estimated 10.5 million children (ages 5 to 162) in Nigeria are out of school, 90% of whom are in northern Nigeria and 7.4 million of whom are girls.

In 2021 the government allocated N1.13 trillion to the Education sector. This is 64.5% higher than the N686.8 billion allocated to the sector in the 2020 budget.  

There are 44 accredited federal universities in Nigeria, according to the National Universities Commission.

According to the UniRank database, in 2020 there are currently 1,225 officially recognised higher-education institutions in Africa.

In 2018 roughly 52 million girls of primary and secondary age were out of school in Sub-Saharan Africa. This amounts to approximately 34% of girls out of primary school compared to 29% of boys. 

The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) ranks Seychelles, Tanzania, Mauritius, Swaziland and Kenya as the five best performers in maths and literacy in East and Southern Africa.

In 2018, Official Development Assistance (ODA) amounted to 3% of GDP in Sub-Saharan African countries, according to UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report 2020. Sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP in 2018 amounted to US$ 1.7 trillion, 3% of which is US$ 51.6 billion

Seychelles (96%), Sao Tome and Principe (93%), Namibia (92%) and Mauritius (91%) had the highest literacy rates in Africa in 2018. One of the cautions with international literacy comparisons is that countries apply different definitions of what it means to be "literate". It also depends on how…