Nigeria, June 2 -- President Bola Tinubu assumed office with a promise to reform the education sector. In his Renewed Hope Agenda, candidate Tinubu promised to transform the sector to make education a driver of economic growth and national development. He promised to do this through increased budgetary allocation, expanded access to higher education, and developing a curriculum that suits emerging global best practices and socio-economic realities.

Two years into a four-year tenure, the Tinubu administration has had two education ministers, increased the education budget, introduced a student loan scheme, and recorded no nationwide university lecturers' strike - a rarity in more than a generation.

While some stakeholders have hailed Mr ...