This Nigerian founder is redefining online learning experience for secondary school students with SabiScholar

SabiScholar is an AI-powered platform facilitating learning for students in secondary schools and helping them prepare for exams

Pandemonium hit Nigeria’s education sector earlier this year when West African Examination Council (WAEC) released the 2025 O’level results, with only 38.32% adjudged to have passed. The news was met with widespread criticism; the quality of education and the seriousness of students were also called into question.

Although WAEC would later detect that an internal glitch had affected the initial outcome, with the revised stats showing an improved pass rate of over 60%, the fact remains that a lot still needs to be done regarding secondary school education in Nigeria.

It is on the backdrop of these challenges that Divine Iloh and Ebuka Osunwoke co-founded SabiScholar, an AI-assisted, offline-first e-learning platform for African secondary schools.

During an exclusive interview with Techpoint Africa, co-founder and tech enthusiast Divine Iloh, who holds a Nigerian technology patent for a delivery stack on low-bandwidth learning, revealed why he is building a platform to tackle some of the challenges facing students.

“The dream was birthed about two years ago. My co-founder and I kept asking why do people have to drive all the way to the National Open University center to learn when it is an online university? But we also realised there was a bigger loophole, even for the secondary schools that people can’t even take lessons and UTME classes online. And so we saw a huge gap and we wanted to tackle it.”

Due to poor network connectivity in Nigeria, online learning can be challenging, but Enugu State-born Iloh explains that SabiScholar has a recently-approved patent that fixes this problem.

“The AI system we developed predicts the best time you’re likely to have network. So on the app, it looks at what time you’re supposed to have network, say 12 a.m. to like 5 a.m. and it begins to download the things you need for the next day, the next one week. So that if you are going to work and you don’t have adequate network, automatically you have your videos, your quizzes, your assignments, and you can do ...