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Building a Modern, Free, Inclusive, and Future-Ready Education System - #Sowore2027 Education Manifesto
Education is the greatest investment any nation can make in its future. It is the foundation of economic prosperity, scientific advancement, democratic participation, national security, and social justice.
A #Sowore2027 administration will place education at the centre of national development by guaranteeing every Nigerian access to free, high-quality education that nurtures knowledge, creativity, innovation, critical thinking, and productive citizenship.
Our objective is not merely to prepare students to pass examinations but to develop leaders, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, skilled professionals, and responsible citizens capable of transforming Nigeria into one of the world’s most advanced societies.
Public education will be free at every level, from early childhood through university.
No Nigerian child or adult will be denied the opportunity to learn because of poverty.
Rather than burdening young people with exploitative student loans, students in public tertiary institutions will receive semester education grants to support their academic and living expenses.
Investing directly in students is an investment in the nation’s future, and no society has ever developed by making education inaccessible to its citizens.
My administration will restructure Nigeria’s education system to make it simpler, more efficient, and better aligned with global best practices.
We will restore a 5-year primary school system followed by five years of uninterrupted secondary education. University education will generally consist of four-year bachelor’s degree programmes, except where internationally recognized professional standards require longer periods of study.
To expand access to higher education, every Local Government Area will receive federal support to establish a Community College offering two-year associate degree programmes that provide affordable pathways into employment, entrepreneurship, vocational training, and university education.
We believe that learning begins long before primary school. Universal early childhood education will become an integral part of Nigeria’s public education system through well-equipped nursery and pre-primary schools staffed by professionally trained educators.
Every Nigerian child deserves the strongest possible educational foundation regardless of family income or geographic location.
Education in the twenty-first century must no longer be confined to the classroom alone.
Our administration will establish an integrated system of physical and virtual learning that allows every learner access to quality education, irrespective of where they live.
Every public educational institution will be connected to high-speed broadband internet and equipped with digital classrooms, virtual laboratories, cloud-based learning platforms, and online libraries. Through technology, students in the most remote communities will have access to educational opportunities comparable to those available anywhere in the world.
Artificial intelligence and digital technology will become central components of learning rather than privileges available only to a few.
AI-assisted personalized learning will help students progress at their own pace while enabling teachers to identify learning gaps and provide targeted support.
Coding, digital literacy, robotics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data science, and computational thinking will become core elements of the national curriculum beginning in primary school. Every graduate should leave school equipped with the skills required to succeed in today’s economy while preparing for the technologies of tomorrow.
Community Colleges will become pillars of local development throughout Nigeria.
Every Local Government Area will operate a Community College offering associate degrees, technical certifications, adult education, continuing education, entrepreneurship training, digital skills programmes, and workforce development initiatives tailored to the needs of local communities.
These institutions will expand access to higher education while supporting local economic growth and reducing educational inequality between urban and rural Nigeria.
Technical and vocational education will enjoy the same status, funding, and public respect as traditional university education.
Nigeria cannot industrialize without highly skilled technicians, engineers, artisans, and innovators.
Training programmes will focus on renewable energy, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, aviation, maritime industries, healthcare technologies, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and the creative industries.
Our objective is to produce graduates who can create jobs, build industries, and compete successfully in global markets.
The long-standing and discriminatory divide between universities and polytechnics will finally end.
All polytechnics and monotechnics will be upgraded into universities with specialized mandates in engineering, applied sciences, technology, industrial innovation, entrepreneurship, and research. This reform will remove artificial barriers to educational advancement while strengthening Nigeria’s capacity for technological development.
No education system can rise above the quality of its teachers. Our administration will place teachers at the centre of national development by establishing Teachers’ Institutes dedicated to continuous professional development.
Every teacher, regardless of previous qualifications, will undergo periodic advanced training in modern pedagogy, educational technology, digital learning, artificial intelligence, curriculum development, classroom leadership, and contemporary teaching methods. Teachers will also receive significantly improved salaries, better housing support, expanded research opportunities, and greater professional recognition.
Universities must remain centres of independent thought rather than instruments of political control. Our administration will guarantee genuine academic, financial, and administrative autonomy for universities while maintaining strong systems of public accountability.
Vice-Chancellors and governing councils will be selected through transparent, democratic, and merit-based processes free from partisan political interference.
Academic freedom will be fully protected. Students and lecturers will enjoy the constitutional rights to research, teach, publish, organize, criticize public policy, and participate peacefully in democratic life without intimidation from government or security agencies. Nigerian campuses will once again become centres of intellectual inquiry, innovation, and democratic debate.
Independent student unionism will also be fully restored and protected. Students have the democratic right to organize themselves, defend their welfare, advocate for reforms, and participate in institutional governance.
No student will face victimization, suspension, expulsion, or prosecution for engaging in legitimate and peaceful activism.
Nigeria must become a producer of knowledge rather than merely a consumer of discoveries made elsewhere.
Our administration will dramatically increase funding for research and innovation across universities and research institutes. Priority investment will support research in medicine, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, agriculture, climate science, manufacturing, transportation, defence technology, public health, and other fields capable of driving national development.
Research grants will be awarded transparently on the basis of merit, measurable impact, and relevance to Nigeria’s developmental needs.
To support learning and innovation nationwide, we will establish a National Education and Innovation Cloud providing every student and teacher with free access to digital libraries, academic journals, AI learning assistants, virtual laboratories, educational software, research databases, and open educational resources. Access to knowledge should never depend on geography or personal wealth.
Our administration will undertake the largest investment in educational infrastructure in Nigeria’s history.
Every school will be equipped with modern classrooms, functional laboratories, libraries, renewable electricity, clean water, reliable internet connectivity, sports facilities, creative arts centres, and infrastructure accessible to persons living with disabilities.
University campuses will feature AI-powered smart hostels with modern security systems, efficient energy management, digital student services, and technology-enabled learning environments.
No child should attempt to learn while hungry. We will establish a nationwide school nutrition programme providing healthy daily meals for pupils in public primary and Secondary schools using food sourced from Nigerian farmers.
Student welfare will also include accessible healthcare, counseling services, mental health support, menstrual hygiene programs, and comprehensive wellbeing initiatives designed to improve educational outcomes.
Our education system will be fully inclusive. Children and adults living with disabilities will receive equal educational opportunities through accessible infrastructure, assistive technologies, Braille and sign-language instruction, specialized teaching personnel, and individualized learning support.
Every Nigerian deserves an education regardless of physical or cognitive ability.
Education must develop the whole person. Our schools will place renewed emphasis on sports, music, literature, theatre, visual arts, film, and cultural education.
Modern sports facilities and creative arts centres will become standard features of educational institutions, enabling young Nigerians to develop their talents while strengthening national identity and cultural confidence.
Nigeria is blessed with one of Africa’s largest communities of scholars and professionals abroad.
Through a National Academic Return Programme, we will encourage Nigerian academics, scientists, researchers, innovators, and professionals in the diaspora to contribute to national development by offering competitive remuneration, research funding, modern laboratories, housing support, and flexible academic appointments. Their expertise will strengthen teaching, research, mentorship, and international collaboration across Nigerian institutions.
Learning should continue throughout life. Every Nigerian will have opportunities to acquire new knowledge and skills through flexible online learning platforms, community colleges, vocational education centres, continuing education programmes, and lifelong learning initiatives designed to keep pace with changing technologies and labour markets.
Education will be recognized and protected as a fundamental constitutional right. Every level of government will have a legal obligation to provide quality education to every Nigerian without discrimination based on income, gender, disability, ethnicity, religion, or place of residence.
Finally, our commitment to education will be matched by our commitment to good governance. A #Sowore2027 administration will allocate 30 percent of the national budget to education, treating it as a strategic investment rather than a recurring expense.
Every allocation will be subject to complete transparency through open budgeting, digital procurement, independent audits, and public reporting.
Corruption in education financing will not be tolerated. Funding for schools, universities, and research institutions will be distributed transparently through Blockchain Technology and linked to measurable improvements in learning, research, innovation, and national development.
We will establish a National Research and Innovation Fund to support groundbreaking discoveries and ensure that publicly funded research delivers practical solutions to Nigeria’s economic, technological, environmental, and social challenges.
This is our vision: an education system that is free, inclusive, technology-driven, research-intensive, democratic, globally competitive, and firmly rooted in the belief that every Nigerian deserves the opportunity to develop their full potential. Our goal is not simply to produce graduates, but to produce thinkers, innovators, creators, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, skilled workers, and leaders who will build a prosperous, just, technologically advanced, and truly liberated Nigeria.
My exclusive interview with TV Platinum on the State of the Nation was conducted yesterday, following my return from Kuje Prison.
We discussed my unlawful incarceration, the worsening state of democracy, the escalating repression of dissent, the abuse of state institutions, and why Nigerians must continue the struggle for genuine liberation.
Watch, share, and join the conversation.
#RevolutionNow #Sowore2027
This is so sad 💔💔
DNA test results have conclusively identified a previously unidentified body at the Ikorodu General Hospital mortuary as that of Pelumi Emmanuel Onifade, the 20-year-old journalist k!!lled while covering the #EndSARS protests in October 2020.
Onifade, an intern reporter with Lagos-based Gboah TV and a 200-level History student at Tai Solarin University of Education, was on assignment in the Abule Egba/Agege area on October 24, 2020.
While covering the protests, he filmed a video that captured the President of the Yoruba Youth Forum, Olusegun Abiodun Bolarinwa, shooting into a crowd of unarmed protesters. The footage quickly went viral, sparking widespread outrage.
Shortly after, Onifade was reportedly shot and arrested by officers attached to the Lagos State Task Force. His body was later found at the Ikorodu mortuary, tagged as No. 1385, but remained unidentified for years due to forensic challenges, including the destruction of DNA samples at the state's forensic centre during the protests.
Recent DNA matching between samples from the body and Onifade's parents, conducted by the Lagos State DNA and Forensic Centre, has now confirmed his identity in the ongoing coroner's inquest.
Onifade's viral video documented a critical moment during the #EndSARS demonstrations against police brutality. Eyewitness accounts indicate that after the footage surfaced, he and a colleague were targeted.
His family searched for him for days before locating what they believed to be his remains at the mortuary, where a gunshot wound was observed.
I read somewhere that the lawless @OfficialDSSNG DG, Tosin Ajayi, now claims they are investigating those who assembled to assault, abduct, and unlawfully hold me hostage me for over an hour in the basement of the Federal High Court. That claim is itself an insult to intelligence. Earlier today, he sent his goons to the Kuje correctional center to intimidate and harass me all the way to the Federal High Court from these goons took over the court premises, and took over the courtroom harassing, lawyers, and citizens
For starters, this operation was planned by the DSS hierarchy. It was coordinated through the Director of Operations, Dogiwa, who remained in constant communication with the team that assaulted and held me hostage after the attack.
No one should be fooled. Tosin Ajayi acting on behalf of Tinubu bears responsibility for what happened at the Federal High Court. Part of the operation was captured on video, while other aspects occurred in the elevator and behind the court complex, away from public view.
Their plans were ultimately frustrated by revolutionary fighters and supporters outside the court premises, whose presence made it impossible for the operation to proceed as intended.
These desperate acts will neither alter nor delay the judgment of history. The collaboration between Tosin Ajayi and former illegal IGP Kayode Egbetokun had already been exposed by SaharaReporters before the court date.
We will continue to resist oppression, expose wrongdoing, and confront those who abuse power.
The struggle continues until justice prevails.
The mass revolt against injustice is coming.
Anyone watching the latest desperate actions of the dying Tinubu regime might be tempted to think they are signs of strength. They are not. They are merely the last kicks of a failing order.
We have been here before. We have seen it, endured it, and overcome it. The outcome will be no different, eventual defeat, disgrace, and the humbling of those who wield power against the people.
I urge all citizens, comrades, and freedom fighters to remain resolute and unwavering. I am unfazed by these developments, and neither is the momentum of our struggle. The velocity of the movement for justice, accountability, and genuine democracy remains undiminished.
Stay focused. Stay courageous. Victory belongs to those who refuse to surrender. #Sowore2027 #TakeItBack #RevolutionNOW
Omokri is an ambassador, Bwala is presidential spokesperson, bandits and Boko Haram are being pardoned. But Sowore was sent to Kuje prison, El-Rufai remains in detention, while Yahaya Bello, Matawalle, and Ganduje walk free, all in the same administration. I am shaking, wallah. 😭💔🇳🇬
Let us continue to mobilize for the revolution. It is our duty to keep conscientizing the people, spreading the message of revolution, and dismantling this oppressive regime.
This is the time for Nigerians to join the revolutionary train and make their voices heard. The fight continues until we win!
Revolution Time! Revolution Now!
I am disappointed in Dangote.
Dangote was supposed to save us from import racketeering. Instead he built a more efficient version of it.
Marketers found out the refinery sells fuel cheaper to foreign traders than to Nigerian companies. So now they ship it to Togo, buy it back as import, and bring it home to Nigeria. And after freight, insurance, and the Lome detour, it still lands in Nigeria N65 cheaper per litre than buying directly from Dangote Refinery Lekki.
Between March and May 2026, 70 to 80% of fuel imported into Nigeria by sea was Dangote fuel. Nigerian fuel oooo that left Nigeria but came back as foreign goods. This business model is not to help Nigerians.
We spent a decade defending this refinery as the thing that would finally free us from the import cartel. Turns out the cartel just changed address. Same exploitation, new gantry.
If your own product is cheaper in Lome than in Lekki, you didn’t build a refinery. You built a tollgate and called it patriotism honestly.
In his final year at the University of Lagos, while Sowore was in the examination hall taking an exam, security operatives were waiting for him outside the classroom.
From 1998 to date:
Security agencies in Nigeria have arrested activist Omoyele Sowore 548 times.
He has been remanded in detention facilities 46 times.
He has faced trial in court 98 times.
Sowore has taken governors, senators, lawmakers, security agencies, and even the President of Nigeria to court. This is a man who has spent much of his life fighting legal and political battles.
It has been brought to my notice that the judge presiding over my case concerning Tinubu is a criminal has revoked my bail, despite my presence in court yesterday, when the judge was not in attendance; consequently, we requested a new date.
The agenda for today was to consider my application seeking the judge's recusal, but instead, he opted to revoke my bail in a bid to assert forceful control over the trial. I will confront these developments with determination and resilience.
This was all planned but it shall not prevail. The struggle continues!