President Bola Tinubu on Thursday transmitted a bill to the Senate aimed at bolstering Federal Government oversight of public Senior Secondary education.
The move is part of the administration’s drive to address capacity and enrolment imbalances across the country’s secondary system.
In a letter read aloud at plenary by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, President Tinubu said the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2026, was approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on April 30 and subsequently vetted by the Ministry of Justice to ensure conformity with drafting standards and constitutional requirements.
“The desire of this administration to strengthen the educational institutions in the national interest” underpins the proposed changes, the president wrote, urging the Senate to give the measure “expeditious consideration” and passage.
Akpabio referred the bill to the Senate committee on rules and business and directed the panel to report back within one week.
The measure arrives as the education ministry signals a retreat from a controversial “disarticulation” policy that had required junior and senior secondary schools to operate separately.
Minister of Education Tunji Alausa this Month said the policy had failed to meet its objectives, creating overcrowded junior secondary schools and underutilized senior secondary facilities in some states.
Alausa also warned that the arrangement helped widen the drop-off between primary and senior secondary enrolment, noting that more than 20 million pupils who began primary education did not transition to senior secondary school.
The amendment bill, if enacted, would strengthen federal administrative structures for senior secondary education as the government seeks to respond to those enrollment and infrastructure challenges.
