By Joseph Erunke, Abuja
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has identified limited access to education as Nigeria’s biggest challenge, saying the country’s education crisis is not about enrolment but the inability of millions of children to progress through the school system.
Alausa spoke on Wednesday at the 2026 Annual Education Summit of the Education Correspondents Association of Nigeria (ECAN) in Abuja, where he urged journalists to rely on official data to hold state governments and local councils accountable for the state of education in their jurisdictions.
The summit, themed: “Three Years of the Tinubu Administration: Assessing Reforms, Progress and Challenges in Nigeria’s Education Sector,” brought together education stakeholders, policymakers and journalists to assess developments and challenges in the sector.
The minister specifically encouraged education reporters to move beyond routine event coverage and embrace investigative, data-driven journalism that would expose gaps in infrastructure, teacher availability and learning conditions across the country.
