Nigeria, March 15 -- The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has outlined strategies and reforms to tackle Nigeria's learning poverty and out-of-school crisis under President Bola Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda.

At the 2025 Ministerial Briefing on Thursday in Abuja, Mr Alausa described Nigeria's education crisis as a major obstacle to national development.

He said 45 million Nigerians are "learning poor," unable to read age-appropriate texts and that the country has the second-highest number of out-of-school children worldwide.

"We need to know our problems so that we can solve them. To clearly and meticulously address this problem, 50 million people are out of school, and 50 per cent of them have never been enrolled. Five per cent of t...