A Nigerian education technology entrepreneur, Divine Iloh, has built an AI-powered remote learning platform that helps schools deliver curriculum-aligned courses online.
The platform, SabiScholar, is a multi-tenant learning management system (LMS) with over 1,200 video lessons and 45 complete O-Level courses that schools can deploy directly to their students.
Iloh, who holds a master’s degree in Business Information Systems and Analytics from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said the innovation was informed by understanding the realities of African internet infrastructure.
Unlike many EdTech tools that are sold directly to individual learners, SabiScholar is designed as a shared infrastructure for schools and colleges. Multiple institutions can run on the same platform at once, each with its own secure environment, branding, and course configuration, while drawing from a common library of curriculum-aligned content.
“The core of what we’ve built so far is simple but powerful,” Iloh explained. “Any school can log in, pick the subjects they want, from Mathematics and English to Physics and Government, and immediately start serving structured online courses to their students, without having to build content or technology from scratch.”
Connectivity constraints still shape how Iloh and his team think about the future of the platform. Many of the students they serve rely on mobile data, share devices at home, or study from areas with unstable connectivity. Rather than trying to solve every infrastructure problem at once, SabiScholar’s current product focuses on delivering reliable, structured content and assessments online, while a separate line of research and development explores more advanced, bandwidth-aware delivery.
SabiScholar’s 2025 pilot validated both the demand for this kind of content-first platform and its ability to support real students. In that pilot, more than 2,900 students from schools across Nigeria used the platform for O-Level exam preparation, accessing over 1,200 curriculum-aligned video lessons with comprehensive study materials.
The platform also includes an AI career advisor that helps students select university degrees that fit their strengths and aspirations.
“Students aren’t just passing exams, they’re making more informed decisions about their futures,” Iloh said. “The AI career advisor connects their academic strengths to university programs and career paths. That’s the kind of guidance many students never get.”
The pilot’s success has positioned SabiScholar to move from experimentation into institutional partnerships. Rather than competing with schools, the company works with them, offering a plug-and-play platform that can be integrated into existing timetables, fees, and academic structures.
In March 2025, the Nigerian Patent Office granted Iloh a patent titled Bandwidth-Aware, Curriculum-Aligned Multi-Tenant System for Accredited Remote Education with Offline Assessment Integrity. The patent protects the architecture he developed through his research on offline-capable education delivery systems—work that sits behind SabiScholar’s long-term roadmap.
“The patent doesn’t describe what every part of the platform does today; it describes where we’re going,” he said. “Our current system already allows multiple institutions to run their own programs using shared, curriculum-aligned content. The patented architecture is about the next step—how to deliver content in smarter ways and preserve assessment integrity.”
For Iloh, securing the patent serves three purposes: protecting years of research, giving partners confidence that the technology has a clear direction, and demonstrating that African-built systems can be technically original.
In October 2025, Iloh spoke at the Nigeria Innovation Summit, where he shared how African-built education platforms can compete globally by starting from local constraints. He argued that curriculum alignment, institutional focus, and careful attention to connectivity patterns will define which platforms actually work for African universities and schools.
“Schools across Africa are under pressure to digitize,” he said at the summit. “But buying an expensive foreign platform is not the same thing as building a sustainable digital education strategy. We need systems that work with our networks, with our curricula, and within our regulatory frameworks.”
At the summit, Iloh outlined how SabiScholar’s current architecture allows institutions to launch remote-learning programs quickly, using pre-built course content, integrated assessments, and basic analytics to track student progress.
Iloh believes that education technology will play a significant role in addressing Nigeria’s access-to-education gap, but only if platforms are honest about what they can do today while still investing in long-term infrastructure. He warns that overpromising on technology can damage trust with schools that have already been disappointed by previous EdTech experiments.
“Our approach is straightforward,” he said. “Right now, SabiScholar gives schools a ready-made LMS with high-quality, curriculum-aligned courses for O-Level exams. As we grow, we’ll layer in more of the patented, bandwidth-aware capabilities so that students with the weakest connectivity are not left behind.”
His long-term vision is to create education infrastructure that allows African students to access high-quality learning from anywhere, without being limited by geography or institutional capacity.
“My goal is that a student in Enugu or Kano can log into a school-branded SabiScholar portal and experience the same level of structured, high-quality learning you’d expect in London or New York,” Iloh said. “We’re not fully there yet, but we’re building the foundations, one course and one school partnership at a time.”
SabiScholar is now scaling from its pilot into broader institutional partnerships with schools. The course library will continue to expand, and as the team progressively implements more of the patented, offline-capable architecture, the platform is expected to support an even wider range of connectivity conditions while keeping institutions firmly in control of their academic programs.
