The 2025–2026 academic year has begun in Nigeria, and many parents are finding it difficult to keep up with the demands.
For many parents and guardians nationwide, the reopening season has brought new waves of worry and annoyance.
Increasing tuition costs, expensive textbooks, uniforms, and other necessities are realities, according to BASEMEDIA.
The majority of the population is having difficulty making ends meet as a result of the nation’s rising cost of living.
The National Bureau of Statistics, or NBS, reports that in July 2025, inflation hit 21.88 percent, making it more difficult for parents to pay for necessities in the home, let alone growing educational costs.
Some parents who enrolled their kids in private schools told the Daily Post that the rising cost of tuition was becoming too much to handle, while others have abandoned their kids to the subpar facilities in public schools.
According to BASEMEDIA’s visit to a few public primary and secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory and the surrounding areas, students are suffering from inadequate facilities, and teachers are taking the blame.
Ngozi Okoro, a single mother, claimed that she used to be pleased to have enrolled her two kids in a respectable private school. She now finds it difficult to uphold that standard, though.
She claimed that she had been able to support herself for years through petty trading and sporadic help from family members, but a sudden 30% increase in school fees last session made her reevaluate her choice.
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