Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Lagos, Edves serves 2,300+ schools worldwide, supporting 625,000+ students, 57,000+ teachers and 387,000+ parents. In Nigeria it is aligned with the NERDC curriculum and national examinations including WAEC, NECO, BECE and UTME, and supports Cambridge IGCSE for international schools.
What Edves does
Nigerian schools generally run on a stack that nobody designed. A registration book, a spreadsheet for fees, a WhatsApp group for parents, a separate result-processing package that only one person understands, and a bursar reconciling bank alerts by hand at the end of term. Each part works. The joins do not.
Edves consolidates that into one record: admissions through to school leaving certificate, with the fee ledger, the continuous assessment scores, the terminal report, the parent notification and the government return all reading from the same data.
The second thing it does is instructional rather than administrative — lesson planning mapped to the NERDC performance objective, computer-based assessment tagged to the same objective, and analytics that tell a teacher which topic a class has not secured before WAEC does.
Company facts
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Company | Edves (EDVES Nigeria) |
| Founded | 2016 |
| Head office | 140 Borno Way, Ebute Metta, Lagos 101212 |
| Phone | +234 704 825 0000 |
| sales@edves.net | |
| Category | School management system · Learning platform · CBT · School accounting |
| Schools served | 2,300+ |
| Students | 625,000+ |
| Parents | 387,000+ |
| Teachers | 57,000+ |
| Curricula | NERDC, Cambridge IGCSE, and blended Nigerian-British delivery |
| Examinations | WAEC/WASSCE, NECO, BECE, UTME/JAMB, Cambridge |
| Delivery | Web, Android, iOS, interactive boards; offline-tolerant |
| Languages | English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo |
What Nigerian schools buy Edves for
- School management — admissions, records, timetabling, attendance, results and terminal reports on one system.
- Fees and accounting — invoicing, part payments, scholarships and discounts, online collection and full accounting through to trial balance. For most private schools this is the reason they buy.
- CBT and assessment — continuous assessment plus computer-based practice for WAEC, NECO, BECE and UTME.
- Pedagogy with AI — lesson planning mapped to NERDC performance objectives, which the teacher edits and owns.
- Parent engagement — app, SMS and WhatsApp updates on results, attendance, behaviour and fees.
- Teacher development — classroom observation and CPD records that support TRCN licence renewal.
Who it is for
- Private nursery, primary and secondary schools — the largest part of the customer base, typically 150–2,000 pupils, often running Nigerian and British curricula together.
- School groups and franchises operating several campuses under one proprietor with consolidated financial reporting.
- Faith-based and mission schools, including diocesan and Islamic school networks.
- International schools delivering Cambridge alongside NERDC.
- State governments running system-wide programmes — see state education programmes.
- Universities, polytechnics and colleges of education — see higher education.
State-scale deployments
Edves supports two of the more substantial state education technology programmes in the South East: Enugu Smart Green Schools and Anambra Smart Schools. These matter for evaluation because they demonstrate the platform operating under real Nigerian constraints — intermittent power, uneven connectivity, multi-site rollout and government reporting obligations — rather than in a well-resourced pilot.
Built for Nigerian conditions
Three design decisions follow from where the product was built, and they are worth stating because they are what usually separates locally-built platforms from imported ones.
- Low-bandwidth tolerance. The system degrades rather than fails when connectivity drops, and SMS and voice are first-class communication channels rather than fallbacks.
- Fee logic that matches how Nigerian schools actually charge. Part payments, term-by-term instalments, sibling discounts, scholarship awards, optional levies, and arrears carried forward — modelled properly rather than approximated.
- Naira-native accounting. Chart of accounts, ledgers, trial balance and profit-and-loss in naira, structured for how a Nigerian bursar and external auditor actually work.
Global context
Edves operates in 11 countries, with Nigeria as its home and largest market alongside the United Kingdom, United States and Ghana. Company information for other regions: edves.com.
Recognition
Best EdTech Prize at the Seedstars Global Summit (2018); first African EdTech selected for the MindCET Go accelerator (2019); recognised or supported by the British Council, FbStart from Facebook, HolonIQ and the World Bank Group. Seed funding from Beta.Ventures, Fondation Botnar and Future Africa.