Bridging the Divide: How Southwest Nigeria is reshaping non-state education through policy reforms.
In classrooms across Nigeria’s Southwest region, millions of children attend schools that exist in a regulatory grey zone, neither fully recognized nor adequately supported by government systems. Non-state schools, ranging from elite international academies to low-fee community schools in informal settlements now educate nearly one-third of Nigerian children. Data shows between 2017 and 2022, the …