Abstract
This chapter describes the development of ancillary education services in Nigeria. Other than the formal educational system, any society requires and in varying degree acquires ancillary educational services. In Nigeria, the first of these services appeared in the form of newspaper and periodicals. Apart from early commercial ventures in the publishing of newspapers in English, the missionary bodies produced their own magazines dealing with religious and parochial matters both in English and in vernacular languages. The existence of a local press based upon the production of newspapers and magazines has also contributed to other kinds of publications. The mission presses at Lagos, Port Harcourt and Jos, while intended primarily to serve the interests of the churches also provided a flow of informative ephemera of other kinds. The Gaskiya Corporation established at Zaria by the government with initial assistance from the Colonial Welfare and Development Funds, in addition to printing newspapers in the vernaculars also published school textbooks in Hausa.
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