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Sola Shittu
The recent closure of 47 unity schools, along with the ongoing shutdown of several private and public institutions, may ultimately prove to be a blessing for Nigeria’s education sector, according to the Country Coordinator of Linkway Outreach Africa (LOA), Pastor Daniel Ibiloma Adejo.
In an interview with journalists in Abuja, Pastor Adejo revealed that LOA has entered into a partnership with the Learning Institute for Excellence (LIFE), a United States–based educational organisation that helps students uncover their purpose, develop their talents, and access customised, high-quality learning led by expert instructors—particularly in an age being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
He announced that through this collaboration, LOA and LIFE have developed a cutting-edge curriculum known as “Counting to Calculus” (CTC), designed to strengthen the current school curriculum and position Nigeria’s education system to compete globally as the world accelerates into the AI era.
Adejo stressed that as the world advances at an accelerated pace and artificial intelligence, automation, and data-driven technologies reshape the global economy, Nigeria—with its vast human capital and youthful population—must not only participate but take the lead.
According to him, artificial intelligence is powered by deep mathematical principles embedded in the CTC model. “Every breakthrough—from machine learning algorithms to robotics, data science, cryptography and automation—relies on core mathematical disciplines such as calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, mathematical logic, numerical methods, optimisation, probability and statistics,” he said.
He described CTC as an entrepreneurial, future-ready module designed to position Nigeria alongside leading mathematics and technology powerhouses like Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, China and Hong Kong.
The new curriculum, he added, is available for adoption from the primary school level to the university across both private and public institutions.
