Nigeria’s education digitisation drive has recorded an impressive start, with students uploading over 11,000 project and thesis entries within the first month of the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank (NERD) operation. Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, tops the chart with 990 curated entries, followed by Bayero University, Kano (611), and Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State (532).
According to NERD’s live analytics portal, other leading institutions include Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma (493), Osun State Polytechnic, Iree (479), University of Ilorin (469), Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere Ekiti (462), Kaduna Polytechnic (379), University of Benin (374), and University of Nigeria, Nsukka (282).
Science and Innovation dominate the submissions with 5,952 entries, followed by Multidisciplinary Studies (2,091), Engineering and Technology (1,958), Tourism and Entertainment (1,392), Infrastructure and Sustainable Development (952), and Humanities (783).
“Lecturers are likely to be more thorough in their supervision when they know their names will accompany those works — visible to researchers, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs globally,” said Haula Galadima, NERD spokesperson.
The NERD initiative aims to digitise, classify, and archive academic outputs from all Nigerian tertiary institutions, providing a centralised databank accessible to scholars, innovators, and industry stakeholders. Over 40,000 students have enrolled on the NERD system, with 158 postgraduate entries from 242 active institutions nationwide.
