The book Secondary education in Nigeria: Challenges and way forward describes secondary education and the challenges facing it in Nigeria. It is written to provide information and relevant data for educational researchers, particularly those that work on secondary education and those working on comparative education in the world, although researchers in other disciplines can gain from it. The first part of the book gives the introduction to the theme. the second part describes secondary education in terms of scope and purposes. The third part discusses the challenges facing secondary education in the country while the fifth part states the recommendations for tackling the challenges and improving the state of secondary education in the country. The last part however gives the summary and conclusion to the issue discussed.

Dr. Akindele Matthew Ige hails from Akure in Ondo State, Nigeria. Apart from his elementary education at St. Thomas's Anglican Primary School, Akure, Nigeria between 1974 and 1980. he hold WASC (1985), B.ED in Biology-Education (1989), M.ED in Educational management (1998), PhD in Educational planning(2010), as well as Diploma in Computer studies