Nigeria, July 3 -- Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this on Friday after monitoring the ongoing 2026 National Learning Assessment in selected public and private schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The minister visited Government Secondary School, Kuje; Junior Secondary School, Kuje Central; and Topaz Model School, Kuje, to assess the exercise.

Alausa said the assessment, which covers pupils in Primary Three and Primary Five, as well as students in Junior Secondary School Two (JSS II) and Senior Secondary School Two (SSS II), is designed to evaluate literacy, numeracy and cognitive skills.

He said the exercise would become a routine national assessment conducted every three years, adding that the Universal ...