The Federal Government has announced plans to officially launch the Digital National Education Management Information System (DNEMIS) on July 1 as part of efforts to strengthen education planning, governance, and service delivery across the country.
The National Project Coordinator of the Special Programmes Operations and Implementation Unit (SPOIU) in the Office of the Minister of Education, Mr. Adebayo Onigbanjo, disclosed this during a press conference in Abuja on Monday.
According to Onigbanjo, DNEMIS is a flagship component of the Nigeria Education Data Infrastructure being implemented under the Nigeria Education Sector Renewal Initiative. He said the platform is designed to standardise education data management at all levels of schooling and address longstanding challenges associated with fragmented and inconsistent data systems.
He explained that the digital platform would create a unified system capable of capturing information on learners, schools, teachers, and education investments nationwide, thereby supporting evidence-based planning, budgeting, monitoring, policymaking, and real-time service delivery.
“For many years, education planning and administration relied on fragmented systems, inconsistent reporting processes and limited access to reliable and timely data. These challenges constrained effective planning, weakened accountability and limited the sector’s ability to respond to emerging realities,” Onigbanjo said.
He added that reliable data has become critical to the ongoing reforms in the education sector, describing data as “the engine of education reform in Nigeria.”
Also speaking, the Special Assistant to the Minister on Digital Communications and E-Learning, Mojoyin Adebajo, said DNEMIS would digitise the Annual School Census process and make selected official education data publicly accessible through an interactive portal for the first time.
Adebajo noted that the initiative would enhance access to information and encourage broader stakeholder participation in discussions on the future of education in Nigeria.
In his remarks, UNICEF Education Specialist for Planning, Monitoring, Data and Research, Saka Ibraheem, said the long-term objective is to integrate all education management platforms into a single national system by the end of next year.
He explained that the integration would bring together the Education Management Information System, Teacher Management Information System, and individual learner records into one comprehensive national education database.
The Federal Government has previously described the broader National Education Data Infrastructure as a “single source of truth” for education data, aimed at improving transparency, accountability, learner tracking, and evidence-based decision-making across the sector.
