EdTech platforms have come and gone in Nigeria. Some raised millions and shut down quietly. Others attracted large numbers of users but struggled to demonstrate long-term learning outcomes.The challenge has never been access to educational content. It has been delivering consistent learning support across different types of learners, income levels, and stages of a child’s education.
HiPrep has been working on that problem since its founding. Today, the Abuja-based platform supports more than 3,000 families through a network of over 400 tutors, helping K–12 learners across Mathematics, English, and Sciences, as well as major examination pathways including WAEC, JAMB, GCSEs, IGCSEs, the 11 Plus, and SATs.
Unlike content-first education platforms, HiPrep built its model around live tutoring and personalized learning support. The company’s approach is rooted in a simple belief: students learn differently, and effective support should reflect that.
What HiPrep is adding now takes that idea a step further.
Meet Lumi.
The gap nobody was filling
After working with thousands of students, HiPrep identified a pattern that kept showing up. The children who made consistent academic progress often had three things working in their favour: structure, accountability, and personalised support. The ones who had learning issues were almost always missing at least one.
Schools provide some structure but very little personalization. A class of forty moves at one pace regardless of who is keeping up and who is not. Most edtech platforms offer content but no real accountability. Additionally, home learning, left to its own devices, tends to provide none of the three reliably.
HiPrep built its tutoring model around all three deliberately. But there was still a gap. What happens to a child’s learning in the hours between sessions? What about the times when a child has questions from what they learned in school that day, when a concept needs revisiting, when the private tutor is not available, and the parent does not know where to begin?
That gap is what Lumi was built for.
What Lumi is
Lumi is HiPrep’s answer to the question of what happens every day after school hours.
The platform serves as an AI study companion, helping students continue learning outside scheduled sessions. Rather than waiting several days for their next lesson, learners can ask questions, revise concepts, practice topics they have recently covered, and receive guidance whenever they need it.
Unlike most AI tools being pointed at the education market, Lumi does not operate as a standalone product. It works within each child’s personalized learning path, informed by a baseline assessment that maps out exactly where the child stands before their first session. That assessment identifies strengths, knowledge gaps, and the right starting point. Everything Lumi does from that point is connected to that specific child’s profile and is tailored to them.
A child using Lumi spends 30 minutes a day studying in a structured way, revising what they have covered in school, and building real consistency on their own. Lumi’s voice makes the experience feel conversational rather than transactional, which matters particularly for younger learners still building their relationship with studying.
Additionally, HiPrep pairs every child with a trained, vetted tutor from its network of over 400 educators. Lumi works alongside that tutor, keeping the child engaged and learning consistently between sessions. The platform brings both together as one connected experience.
Lumi is available every day, at any time, for a fraction of what a single tutoring session costs. That last point is not incidental. It is central to what HiPrep is trying to do.
The bigger argument
HiPrep’s position is straightforward. Personalized learning has historically been a privilege, available to children whose families could afford daily tutors, coaching centers, and the kind of structured academic support that produces well-rounded students. Lumi is HiPrep’s most direct answer to that inequality.
“We have always believed that quality education should not be determined by a family’s income,” the company said in its announcement of Lumi. “That belief is not just a mission statement. It is the reason we built Lumi.“
Lumi is currently live, with a wider rollout underway. Early families on the platform are already reporting strong engagement from their children, which in a market where retention has historically been one of EdTech’s hardest problems, is worth paying attention to.
Nigeria’s EdTech space has seen enough platforms launch with big promises and struggle to show what actually changed for the children using them. What HiPrep is building with Lumi is a more honest attempt at the problem. Not AI for the sake of it. Not generic content. But a system designed around the three things that research and years of working with real children consistently show actually produce results.
The work, as HiPrep puts it, is not finished. But it has started.
Families can register at parent.hipreponline.com.
