Abstract This study evaluated Nigerian Educational process, success, challenges and solutions since colonial and post-colonial eras. The study was qualitative research design, because it did not involve any numbering or statistical analysis. Major sources of data collection for this paper were through secondary sources, like text books, journals and personal contact with educational stakeholders. The paper enunciated that Nigerian people had traditional educational system before the arrival of colonial masters. Then, the independent bodies like missionaries were the first to establish schools in Nigeria. The colonial government was sensitized to involve in western education through the agitations from the Nigerian elites. Some of the problems to Nigeria education were chronic underfunding of education, the out of school children crises, poor quality of teaching and teacher’s development, infrastructure deficit and dilapidated school facilities, examination malpractices and credentialing crisis, gender inequality and social exclusion in education, insecurity and school violence, governance failure and policy inconsistencies, over dependent on government and neglect of private sector partnership. The above problems were solved through; sustainable and prioritize educational funding, aggressive actions on out of school children, comprehension teacher’s reform, infrastructure rehabilitation and digital transformation, examination integrity restoration, curriculum relevance, gender inequality and inclusive education security and safe school, governance reformed and policy stability as well as strategic public-private partnership.

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