The federal government has stepped up efforts to address the shortage and uneven distribution of teachers in Nigerian schools through virtual teaching, digital learning platforms and capacity-building programmes for educators.
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Key Highlights
- Education Minister Tunji Alausa outlined the plan on Channels Television’s Politics Today on November 3, 2026.
- Inspire Live connects students to certified master teachers through live online lessons on Cisco Webex.
- Lessons currently stream to selected junior and senior secondary classes, with recorded sessions available.
- The Ignite platform gives teachers lesson-planning tools, templates and shared materials.
- FG is funding a teacher preparedness programme for almost 50,000 teachers.
Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, disclosed this on Tuesday night, November 3, 2026, during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, explaining that the government is exploring technology-driven solutions to improve access to quality teaching, particularly in communities where schools lack sufficient qualified teachers.
How Inspire Live works
He disclosed that a major component of the strategy is Inspire Live, an initiative of the ministry designed to connect pupils and students to qualified teachers through live online lessons.
The programme is intended to reduce the effect of teacher shortages by allowing learners in participating schools to receive lessons delivered remotely by experienced educators.
Through the platform, certified master teachers conduct virtual classes in different subjects, giving learners access to instruction that may not otherwise be available in their schools.
The lessons are delivered through Cisco Webex, while students can also access recorded sessions and other learning resources on the platform.
The programme currently streams lessons for selected junior and senior secondary school classes. The expansion is expected to increase the number of learners who can benefit from virtual teaching, particularly in schools struggling to recruit or retain teachers in some subject areas.
However, the ministry has not publicly established the total number of schools and pupils currently participating in the programme, making it important to distinguish the ongoing expansion from a completed nationwide rollout.
Ignite platform for teachers
Beyond providing virtual lessons to students, the government is also seeking to strengthen teachers’ ability to prepare and deliver lessons through digital resources.
One of the platforms supporting this objective is Ignite, which provides teachers with tools for lesson planning, collaboration and the sharing of educational materials.
According to the Federal Ministry of Education, Ignite offers lesson-planning resources, templates and other materials intended to help teachers organise classroom instruction and improve the quality of teaching.
The platform is part of the government’s broader effort to integrate technology into the education system rather than rely solely on virtual classes for students.
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50,000 teachers in preparedness programme
Alausa also said the government is funding a teacher preparedness programme involving almost 50,000 teachers.
The initiative is intended to improve teachers’ capacity and readiness to deliver effective instruction as the education sector adopts more technology-supported methods of teaching and learning.
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