24 results
- 18 Oct 2022
Coursera Partners with NITDA to Drive Nigeria’s Digital Economy Growth, Tackle Youth Unemployment
Coursera Inc., a global online learning platform, today announced that it is partnering with Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), to facilitate the country’s…
- 8 Nov 2023
NITDA Gives Laptops to Outstanding Learners of its Cohort 2 COURSERA Programme
Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE, the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has presented laptops to top ten learners of the cohort 2 NITDA-COURSERA…
- 7 Jul 2020
Covenant University Partners Coursera for Full-scale Blended Learning
African higher education institution Covenant University has partnered with online learning platform Coursera to address the need for job-relevant skills on the continent. According to a statement…
- 24 Jan 2024
NITDA Opens Application for COHORT 3 of Professional Courses in Partnership with COURSERA
In line with the Agency’s drive to implement the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda to create one million digital jobs in the Information Technology sector, the National Information…
- 9 Mar 2022
UK Govt Earmarks £20m for Global Partnership to Educate Girls Around the World
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is launching a new £20m (about N10.88 billion) business partnership as the UK continues to lead global efforts to improve girls’ access to education in developing…
- 16 Jul 2023
Cyber Security: NITDA, CIFCFIN to Collaborate on Digital Forensics
Kashifu Inuwa, director-general, National Information Technology Development Agency, has assured the President of Chartered Institute of Forensic and Certified Fraud Investigator of Nigeria (CIFCFIN)…
- 30 Jul 2021
NITDA Partners AREAI to Drive Digital Innovation for Rural Community
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has made commitment to support and collaborate with Non-Governmental Organisations working within the scope of the Agency’s Strategic…
- 8 Mar 2022
UBA Foundation Partners UK, Others in £20m Girl Education Drive
The United Kingdom has launched a partnership worth £20m with United Bank for Africa Foundation and 10 other organisations to improve girls’ access to education and employment in developing…
- 15 Jun 2022
Google Celebrates International SMB Month with an eCommerce Summit and Digital Marketing Scholarships
Google has announced new initiatives to support small retail businesses in Africa as part of a month-long commemoration of International Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Businesses Day in June. This…
- 2 Aug 2020
How to Become a Software Engineer - a Step-by-Step Guide
By: Prince Osinachi Nchiba As a global authority in the software engineering space, I get asked a lot about how to become a software engineer. My career transition story proves that being a software…
- 20 Jun 2023
NITDA Collaborates with PAN Africa Female Youth Initiative on Digital Literacy
National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, is expanding its collaboration tentacles to strengthen digital inclusiveness through a partnership with the Pan African Female Youth…
- 11 Mar 2024
NITDA Commits to Empowerment of Women
Kashifu Inuwa, the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has reaffirmed the agency's unwavering commitment to collaborating and empowering women to…
- 7 Apr 2024
Musty Mustapha, MD, Kuda MFB Shares Insights on How Nigeria’s Tech Talents Can Upskill Careers in Today’s World
In a bid to address the pressing demand for upskilling in Nigeria’s fintech industry, the Africa Fintech Foundry Ecosystem Roundtable 5.0 gathered industry experts to share insights on how Nigeria’s…
- 30 Jun 2024
NITDA, ACEPHAP, to Leverage Digital Technology in Improving Healthcare Sector
In its continued effort to implement the presidential priority areas, particularly Focusing on Education, Health and Social Investment by strengthening their capacities through digital innovation and…
- 25 Apr 2025
MTN Foundation Launches Skills Academy to Bridge Nigeria’s Digital Skills Gap
MTN Foundation has officially launched its Skills Academy, a transformative digital learning platform designed to empower millions of Nigerians with access to digital and financial skills essential…
- 9 Jul 2025
NITDA Reaffirms Commitment to 95% Digital Literacy by 2030, as UBEC Pledges Collaboration
Kashifu Inuwa CCIE, the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has reaffirmed the Federal Government’s unwavering commitment to achieving 95% digital…
- 27 Aug 2025
NITDA Links Weak Passwords to Rising Cases of Hacking
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has identified weak passwords, phishing scams and SIM-swap fraud as the main causes of the rising wave of social media account hacking…
- 25 Oct 2016
I don't Want to Assume Everyone Here Know #startupsouth and What It's About
Introduction Startupsouth is Nigeria’s premier Startup Conference focusing on founders mainly in the South-South and South-East of the country. It’s main objectives is to educate, expose and possibly…
- 17 Aug 2026
Meta, 3MTT, RAIN launch AI Academy Nigeria to boost AI skills
Meta has partnered with the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy (FMCIDE), through its 3 Million Technical Talent (3MTT) programme and the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR), as well as Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Nigeria (RAIN), to launch AI Academy Nigeria.
- 1 Nov 2016
Ten Startups Battle For Pitching Spot At #StartupSouth '16
Ten startups operating in agro-alied, fin-tech, ecommerce, edutech, energy, fashion and entertainment sectors of the economy and drawn from five States in the South-South part of the country are…
- 15 Aug 2017
7 Things Nigerian Students Can Do While ASUU is on Strike
It has been a few years since students in Nigerians had to deal with long-term strikes; and just at the moment we thought the era of students having to stay an extra 2 to 3 years in school due to…
- 8 Sept 2017
Online Courses, Means of Developing Digital Expertise in Africa
“The World is flat” is the title of the bestselling book by Thomas Friedman, the influential American author and Journalist, where he argued that several developments in the 21st century such as…
- 28 Jun 2020
Re-imagining the Business School Model
By Austin Okere This pandemic has uncovered the soft underbelly of our unwillingness to think beyond the present and anticipate future eventualities. There have been various experiences and…
- 12 Jul 2020
A Dirge to the Nigerian Research and Education Network
By Austin Okere There is no cheer about the recent pronouncements from the hierarchy in the education sector and the long-term impact on our youth. “Nigerian government reverses resumption of…