A fresh controversy is brewing in the education sector as the Nigerian Publishers Association (NPA) push back against the proposed N2,000 per-page charge and planned textbook ranking system.
The publishers faulted the Federal Ministry of Education over a proposed policy to introduce ranking of educational textbooks, warning that it could destabilise the publishing industry and create a “winner-takes-all” system.
Lukman Dauda, the NPA national president, said the association had already opposed the policy in a statement issued on April 28, 2026, calling for its immediate withdrawal.
Dauda emphasised that the proposed ranking system, introduced through the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), would distort fair competition in the education sector and undermine existing evaluation processes.
“The current textbook assessment framework already provides a transparent and objective system that ensures a level playing field for publishers, and rather than introducing ranking, government should strengthen the existing mechanism,” he said.
