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The Digest:

As schools reopen across Nigeria, parents are facing unprecedented financial strain with reports of tuition fees doubling and essential costs soaring. Amid a crippling inflation rate of 21.88%, many families are being forced to choose between educating their children and putting food on the table.

Key Points:
  • Parents report fee increases of up to 30-100% in private schools across the country.
  • Rising costs of uniforms, textbooks, and transportation are compounding the financial burden.
  • Some families are transferring children from private to underfunded public schools with poor facilities.
  • Desperate parents are turning to crowdfunding and selling personal belongings to cover costs.
  • Nigeria already has over 17 million out-of-school children, a figure experts warn could rise.
  • A single mother shared her pain of choosing between feeding her children and paying school fees.
  • Education experts caution that unaffordable education deepens poverty and limits national development.
This crisis highlights the painful intersection of economic instability and educational inequality, threatening to reverse years of progress in school enrollment and youth empowerment.

Sources: Daily Post,