The Federal Government has launched EduTrace, a National Track, Trace and Asset Intelligence Platform designed to strengthen transparency, promote accountability, and ensure efficiency in the management and distribution of education assets.
The initiative was unveiled by the Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa, CON, as part of the Federal Ministry of Education’s broader National Education Sector Renewal Initiative (NESRI) agenda aimed at safeguarding public investments and ensuring that education resources reach their intended beneficiaries across Nigeria.
Dr. Alausa described EduTrace as a transformative digital solution that addresses long-standing challenges in education administration, particularly the lack of real-time visibility, traceability, and verification of instructional materials, digital learning devices, and other education assets deployed nationwide.
EduTrace operates on a centralized digital platform that provides the Federal and State Government with real-time visibility into the movement, location, utilization, and status of education assets funded or supported by the government and its partners. These assets include textbooks, teaching and learning aids, digital devices, and other instructional materials supplied to schools and institutions across the country.
Despite sustained investments in education service delivery, gaps in monitoring distribution outcomes and asset utilization have persisted. EduTrace has been developed to close these gaps by enabling end-to-end digital tracking of education assets from procurement and warehousing to distribution, handover, and final use by beneficiaries.
EduTrace leverages modern technologies including barcodes, QR codes, RFID tagging, geotagging, and Mobile Device Management (MDM) to assign each education asset a unique digital identity. This identity is validated at every point of movement and custody, ensuring digital verification of handovers, continuous traceability, real-time inventory visibility, and verifiable records throughout the asset’s lifecycle.
EduTrace serves as the single national source of truth for education assets managed by the Federal Ministry of Education and its parastatals. Through a unified national framework, the Ministry can systematically monitor procurement, storage, distribution, redistribution, and utilization of assets across federal, state, and local government levels, thereby strengthening governance, planning, budgeting, and audit readiness.
With EduTrace, education assets can no longer be lost, diverted, misused, or underutilized without detection. The system enhances donor and stakeholder confidence, reinforces accountability, and strengthens public trust in the management of education resources.
Its deployment represents a major milestone in modernising education asset governance and positions Nigeria as a leading example of digital accountability and transparency in Africa’s education sector.
The Federal Ministry of Education reaffirms its commitment to leveraging technology to improve service delivery, protect public investments, and deliver measurable outcomes across the education system.
Signed
Boriowo Folasade
Director, Press and Public Relations
