Nigeria’s federal government has opened applications for the Accelerated Teacher Professionalisation Pathway, an initiative for people already teaching without formal professional qualifications. According to Leadership, the programme offers pedagogical training and certification intended to help participants qualify for registration with the Teachers Registration Council. The report says applications are available ahead of a September 18 deadline, targeting non-professional teachers seeking formal recognition.

Nigeria's Federal Government is planning to implement a new competency-based digital curriculum for teacher training, with the goal of producing educators who are digitally skilled and competitive on a global scale.

Education stakeholders in West Nile, Uganda, have called on the government to reinstate training programs for new teachers while also upgrading current educators. They warn that the discontinuation of Primary Teachers’ Colleges (PTCs) and National Teachers’ Colleges (NTCs) has led to an increasing shortage of teachers in the region, according to a statement from Prof. Epiphany Odubuker Picho, the former Chairperson of the relevant educational body.

The Zamfara State Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project has begun a five-day digital skills training programme for 140 teachers drawn from 70 schools across the state. According to Daily Trust, the training aims to strengthen teachers' capacity to use digital technology in classroom instruction and to improve learning outcomes. State Ministry of Education officials were involved in the exercise, which forms part of the AGILE project's broader education empowerment efforts.

Angela Ajala, the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), announced plans to implement a competency-based digital curriculum in Nigeria's colleges of education. This initiative aims to enhance the quality of teacher education and develop a new generation of teachers equipped with digital skills to compete globally.

The Nigerian Federal Government has introduced a six-month Accelerated Teacher Professionalisation Pathway enabling non-education graduates to obtain professional teacher certification. According to Punch, holders of BSc, HND, and ND qualifications can apply for the programme, which is designed to provide a route into the teaching profession for those whose degrees were not in education.