ACCOMPLISH MAGAZINE APRIL 2024

CEO INTERVIEW
Amazing-Team
I do education research in the
Scandinavian region which includes
countries such as Norway, Sweden,
and Finland. They are among the
best organised societies in the
world and rate very high on equity,
fairness, and justice and with very
low crime rates. I have interrogated
their socio-economic and political
system and discovered that they
started their journey to the beautiful
countries they have become from
democratised access to good
quality education.
Dr. Peter Ogudoro, UK
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Their governments have taken
responsibility for the education of the
citizenry. Their teachers are superbly
trained and empowered, using
public funds, and everyone who has
the intellectual capacity to benefit
from the great education they offer
gets the opportunity to do so. This
goes all the way from kindergarten
to doctoral level. So, I know some
interesting things education can
do for Nigeria and the rest of the
African continent and now striving
to get all stakeholders in the system,
especially relevant government
agencies, to give it a strategic
place in the scheme of things. You
can’t get it wrong with good quality
education!
Accomplish Magazine: The
Nigerian Education Enhancement
Project is a pivotal initiative under
your guidance. What are the key
objectives of this project, and
what impacts have you observed
or hope to achieve through its
implementation?
Dr. Peter Ogudoro: The Nigerian
Education Enhancement Project
is pooling resources, especially
intellectual leverage, from around
the world to train school owners
and leaders on modern leadership,
and equipping teachers to run
their classrooms in ways that
truly transform lives. There is too
much rote-learning going on in
Nigeria - meaning that effectively
speaking, not much learning is
being promoted through most
classrooms in Nigeria. There is too
much focus on preparing students
for examinations so they can get
diplomas we interpret as meal
tickets. This unfortunate situation
accounts largely for the high
unemployment rate in Nigeria and
the shameful pervasive poverty in
our country.
Half of the money we are
wasting on politicians can fix Nigeria
through functional education. Train
teachers well. Give them autonomy
to run their classrooms. Give them
recognition for the extra mile they
go to serve society and compensate
them adequately for their efforts. Put
those conditions in place and watch
miracle happen.
Our project is leveraging the
resources our partners are
graciously providing us to pursue
those goals, primarily, through
the creation of awareness on the
need for stakeholders to empower
teachers to become learner-centred
and jettison the labourious, and
anachronistic lesson plans that have
been at the root of poor teaching
and learning in Nigerian schools.
Over half a million teachers are
hearing this from our various media
platforms and are adopting better
teaching approaches. We won the
Facebook Community Accelerator
Award for year 2021 on the strength
of the impact we are making on
the Nigerian education system. The
British Council celebrated us publicly,
in Lagos, last year in appreciation
of our outstanding social impact.
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