Tag: Digital Skills
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FG invites applicants for newly launched digital skills programme
The Federal Government, in collaboration with Wema Bank is inviting eligible Nigerians to apply for its recently launched digital skills programme for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
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85% of Nigerian graduates have no digital skills – Report
More than 85 per cent of Nigeria’s graduates have no digital skills, a survey by GetBundi, an online education technology outfit, has shown.
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Why capacity building in digital skills is important for professionals in Africa
Capacity building is the improvement in an individual’s or organization’s facility to produce, perform or deploy. According to the United Nation, Capacity building is the process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities processes and resources that organization and communities need to survive, adapt and thrive in a fast-changing world. Skill development and training…
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STEM learning gets a boost with launch of GetBundi
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education, experts say, is the bedrock of any meaningful or sustainable economic growth and development. Yet, Africa lags behind the rest of the world in STEM education, with less than 25 percent of African higher education students pursuing STEM-related career fields. In a bid to change this narrative, a new…
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NITDA invites PLWDs from South South for digital skills training
NITDA invites PLWDs from South South for digital skills training
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Why digital skills training is so important
In 2018, numbers on Internet usage made headlines announcing that more than half the world is online. This is indeed great progress given that 15 years earlier (in 2003) only 12% of the world’s people were using the Internet. Despite this enormous growth, however, nearly half of the world’s people are still not using the…
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Digital skills: World Bank pledges support for Kaduna youth
The World Bank on Thursday pledged to support Kaduna State Government efforts in equipping youth with digital skills to tap from the income generation potential of virtual economy. Mr Rachid Benmessaoud, the World Bank Country Director, Nigeria, African Region made the pledged on Thursday through a video message played at the close of the three-day…
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Digital skills: FG sets up multi-million naira training centre for IDPs in Abuja
…set to equip IDPs with digital skill …awards scholarship to 300 IDPs All is now set for the federal government to equip Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) with necessary digital skills as the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has set up a multi-million naira training centre for IDPs in Abuja. The NITDA says the multi-million…
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US ambassador unveils first American space in Nigeria
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. William Stuart Symington, has opened Nigeria’s first state-of-the art Priority American Space hosted at the yaba offices of technology incubator, Co-Creation Hub (CCHub). At the event attended by technology leaders, Ambassador Symington explained that the space, which is equipped with cutting-edge digital technology, is a centre for Nigerians…