The existing education data in Nigeria are Millennium Development Goal (MDG) centric with focus on enrolment, transition and completion statistics, with no statistics on the extent of learning taking place in schools. However, with the new global agenda, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on quality education, huge data gap exits in Nigeria to track progress and this should be the immediate task ahead of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Federal Ministry of Education, which is saddled with ensuring uniform education standard in Nigeria.