Tinubu’s performance enough for his re-election, says education minister Tunji Alausa

The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, on Tuesday, referred to as for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election for second time period on the energy of his prformance within the final three and a half years in workplace.

“There are objective programmatic deliveries that President Bola Tinubu has made in transforming this country for good in a way that it’s never been transformed before. Nigerians, President Bola Tinubu has done phenomenally well for this country. He has transformed every single sector of this country, and he deserves to be re-elected come 16 January 2027,” Mr Alausa stated.

Speaking as a visitor on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme monitored by PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday, Mr Alausa stated Nigeria, underneath the Tinubu administration, now has over $55 billion in overseas reserves, a stabilised trade fee, GDP development of virtually 4.43 per cent, quarter over quarter, and infrastructural improve. He additionally famous that states have been capable of pay salaries.

While the minister praised the administration’s efforts, many Nigerians proceed to battle with the cruel realities of the administration’s insurance policies.

The macro-economic good points usually touted by a officers and supporters of the administration haven’t trickled all the way down to the peculiar Nigerians. Residents have staged a collection of protests to specific their displeasure.

In his Independence Day tackle, the President acknowledged the extreme financial pressure residents are dealing with.

He famous that the reforms that adopted had been tough and its unintended effects had been actual.

But he stated the medication should not be confused with the illness, arguing that his administration’s “overriding purpose” previously three years was to “correct our nation’s course.”

Educational score-card

Mr Alausa stated that the renewed hope agenda of the Tinubu administration “delivered 100 per cent” within the education sector.

He listed the tutorial insurance policies, together with the coed mortgage scheme, the Inspired Live initiative reaching distant areas, and the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Initiative.

“We’ve made a major enhance within the wage. We name it CATA: Consolidated Academic Tool Allowances. Over 500 billion has been injected into the economic system simply based mostly on secure tertiary education.

“We have significant money from the Nigerian Education Loan Fund of almost about N370 billion, with about N192 billion in student stipends..We now have students in school all year, all sessions around,” the minister stated.

But the out-of-school youngsters disaster stays persistent within the nation.

Mr Alausa rejected UNICEF’s out-of-school youngsters statistics. Nigeria is believed to have between 15 million to 17.5 million out-of-school youngsters, an estimate mR Alausa rejected.

He anchored his objection on lack of an up to date census figures within the nation.

Mr Alausa initiatives Nigeria bas solely eight million out-of-school youngsters. He added that 1.2 million youngsters have been taken off the streets by multi-layer intervention.

He famous thar the National Bureau of Statistics is finishing up a basic family survey to “count the number of out-of-school children across the country,” from January 2026.

“I can tell you at the end of the day we’ll have about 8 million out-of-school children,” the minister stated.

Meanwhile, abductions of scholars throughout President Tinubu’s administration have precipitated main disruptions in class calenders in several components of the nation.

In November 2025, terrorists kidnapped 25 schoolgirls from Maga Comprehensive Girls’ Secondary School in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, North-west Nigeria, and killed two academics.

Within the identical month, terrorists attacked St Mary’s School, a Catholic-owned establishment in Papiri group, Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State, north-central Nigeria and kidnapped 265 college students and employees members.

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In response to the Niger and Kebbi kidnappings, the federal authorities ordered the closure of all Unity Schools, and the governors of Katsina, Kebbi, Plateau, and Yobe States equally halted faculty actions.

In September, college students and employees of Federal Unity Schools in Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu states stayed away from faculty as education unions’ strike delayed the graduation of the 2026/2027 tutorial session.

Public faculties within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, confronted an identical ordeal as FCT employees went on an indefinite strike.

Dozens of scholars and their academics who had been kidnapped in two separate assaults between May and June in Askira/Uba LGA of Borno State stays in captivity.

The first abduction befell in Mussa, and coincided with the coordinated kidnapping of 39 college students and 7 academics from three faculties in Oyo State.

While the Oyo college students had been freed after 57 days in captivity, their Borno counterparts are nonetheless held captive, with their mother and father accusing the federal authorities of selective response.

PRMIUM TIMES reported in October how greater than 2,000 college students have been kidnapped in roughly 30 mass kidnapping incidents, and the way faculty abductions have grimly advanced right into a normalised characteristic of Nigeria’s safety panorama.