Founded in Lagos in 2016, Edves powers the Enugu Smart Green Schools programme across 260 schools and Anambra Smart Schools across 22 pilot local government areas, alongside private, public and international schools nationwide.
Where Edves started
Edves was founded in Lagos in 2016 to digitise Nigerian K–12 education, and Nigeria remains the market where the platform is deployed at the widest range of scale — from a single 200-pupil private school to a state government programme covering hundreds of schools at once.
Curriculum and examinations
- NERDC curriculum, KG through SS3.
- WAEC, WASSCE, BECE, NECO and UTME/JAMB preparation with past-question banks.
- Cambridge IGCSE and Checkpoint for international schools, mapped in parallel with NERDC.
Parallel mapping matters for a large share of Nigerian private schools, which prepare students for national and international examinations simultaneously. See curriculum and assessment.
School accounting
Nigerian private schools operate as businesses under real margin pressure, and fee collection is frequently the difference between a solvent term and a difficult one. Edves covers tuition, levies, discounts, instalment plans and automated reminders, plus full income, expenses, budgeting and profit-and-loss reporting, hostel, transport and inventory. See school management.
Government and system-scale deployment
| Programme | Scale |
|---|---|
| Enugu Smart Green Schools | 260 schools |
| Anambra Smart Schools | 22 pilot local government areas |
System-scale deployment is a different discipline from single-school implementation. The constraints that dominate are connectivity variance across local government areas, device availability, teacher digital capability, and the reporting obligations that run up to state ministries, UBEC and the national EMIS. Aggregate reporting across schools has to work while each school retains control of its own records.
Compliance and reporting
- EMIS and NEMIS reporting for MDAs and UBEC.
- NDPR data privacy alignment.
- School census and infrastructure reporting.
Language and reach
Communication and learning resources are available in English, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. SMS micro-learning and radio programming extend reach to households without reliable data, and out-of-school and street teacher support programmes address learners outside the formal system.
This is not an optional extra in the Nigerian context. A platform that assumes an unlimited data plan and a modern smartphone will serve the schools that need it least.
Teacher development
Observation and CPD align to TRCN and NTI professional standards. Nigeria’s teacher supply pressure makes structured, job-embedded development more consequential than in markets with abundant experienced staff — a new teacher receiving specific, evidence-anchored feedback each fortnight develops considerably faster than one receiving an annual appraisal.
AI in Nigerian schools
The most useful early application in Nigerian schools is not student-facing AI. It is returning teacher time in schools where class sizes make individual feedback structurally difficult, and making curriculum coverage visible where oversight capacity is stretched. See Pedagogy with AI and AI in education.
School types served
Public, private, international and state initiative schools.
Getting started
Nigeria enquiries: +234 704 825 0000. Office: 140 Borno Way, Ebute Metta, Lagos 101212. Regional site: edves.ng.