An online education provider, STEM-EduReach, has announced a two-year full scholarship programme for students recently rescued from mass abductions in Kebbi and Niger States.
The edtech organisation pledged support for their recovery and return to learning amid rising insecurity in northern Nigeria.
The STEM-EduReach founder and CEO of STEM Child Care Academy, Mamu Alhaji Muhammad, announced on Tuesday during a press briefing in Abuja that the gesture was a moral obligation to safeguard the future of Nigerian children affected by conflict.
Mr Muhammad warned that continuous attacks on schools, particularly in the North, were deepening an education crisis already strained by poor infrastructure, teacher shortages, and socio-economic barriers.
“Nigeria has only about 350,000 teachers serving 46 million students at the basic and senior secondary levels—a shocking ratio of roughly 130 to one, compared to the global benchmark of 20 to one,” he said.
He added that about half of Nigeria’s teachers are unqualified, while teacher attrition stands at 20 per cent, compounding learning gaps across the country.
He said the recent abductions in Kebbi and Niger, which prompted the closure of more schools across the region, worsened the situation by instilling fear in parents and expanding the population of out-of-school children.
“Prolonged insecurity has already denied hundreds of thousands of children in northern Nigeria their right to basic education. Even when rescued, these children face the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, which can severely affect their ability to learn,” he said.
Mr Muhammad explained that the scholarship covers all rescued students from the two states and seeks to help them reintegrate into academic activities in a safe and supportive environment.
EduReach, he noted, delivers both Nigerian and Cambridge curricula and provides access to STEM subjects such as robotics, coding and artificial intelligence. The platform offers pre-recorded lessons by trained educators, digital lesson notes, quizzes, assignments, live discussion forums, and personalised learning pathways.
He said the organisation had formally notified the affected state governments of the scholarship offer and expressed readiness to collaborate on implementation.
Mr Muhammad urged governments, civil society organisations and development partners to step up efforts to tackle the systemic and security-related challenges threatening education in the region.
“No child should be denied safe, equitable and quality education,” he said.
