EDUCATION SYSTEM

  Education in Nigeria March 7, 2017 By WES Staff This education profile describes recent trends in Nigerian education and student mobility, and provides an overview of the structure of the education system of Nigeria. This version is adapted from earlier versions by Jennifer Onyukwu, Nick Clark, and Caroline Ausukuya, and has been updated to reflect the most current available information   INTRODUCTION Almost one in four Sub-Saharan people reside in Nigeria, making it Africa’s most populous country.  It’s also the seventh most populous country in the world, one with ongoing growth. From an estimated 42.5 million people at the time of independence in 1960, Nigeria’s population has more than quadrupled to 186,988 million people in 2016 ( UN projection ). The United Nations anticipates that Nigeria will become the third largest country in the world by 2050 with 399 million people. [1] The country is of growing economic importance as well. In mid-2016, it overtook South Africa as the larg