The Federal Government will on Wednesday unveil a national digital platform designed to unify fragmented education data across Nigeria, in what officials have described as a landmark step towards evidence based planning, policymaking and service delivery in the country's education sector.

The platform, known as the Digital National Education Management Information System, will be launched alongside the Public DNEMIS Portal and the inauguration of DNEMIS State Implementation Teams.

Speaking at a pre event media briefing in Abuja on Monday, the National Project Coordinator of the Special Programmes Operations and Implementation Unit in the Office of the Minister of Education, Mr Adebayo Onigbanjo, said the initiative was designed to address years of weak and inconsistent education data that have hampered effective governance.

"For many years, education planning and administration relied on fragmented systems, inconsistent reporting structures 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," he stated.

Onigbanjo explained that the Federal Ministry of Education developed the Nigeria Education Data Infrastructure as a national framework to coordinate, standardise and strengthen education data management across all levels. "At the centre of this transformation is DNEMIS, a flagship component of NEDI and a major milestone in Nigeria's journey toward a modern, integrated and digitally enabled education management system," he added.

The platform will provide timely, reliable and accessible data to support planning, budgeting, policymaking and monitoring, while ensuring that every learner, teacher, school and public investment in education is captured within a unified national database. "Data is no longer a back office function. It is becoming the engine of education reform in Nigeria," Onigbanjo noted.

The Special Assistant to the Minister of Education on Digital Communications and E Learning, Miss Mojoyin Adebajo, disclosed that DNEMIS was developed on the globally recognised District Health Information Software 2 platform to modernise education administration and strengthen evidence based decision making.

She added that the platform would digitise the Annual School Census, replacing manual data collection with an integrated digital system, and would for the first time make selected official education data publicly accessible to researchers, journalists, development partners, civil society organisations and policymakers through the Public DNEMIS Portal.

Officials acknowledged technical support from the United Nations Children's Fund and the University of Oslo in developing the initiative, which forms a core component of the Nigeria Education Sector Renewal Initiative led by Minister of Education Dr Maruf Tunji Alausa.