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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in partnership with Coursera has started the second cohort of a six-month training programme fully funded by NITDA aimed at building the digital capacities of Nigerian youths to enable them to earn professional certifications from top US colleges and global tech giants.
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The initiated is part of the commitments of the Nigerian government to empower young people by offering job-ready digital skills scholarship training programmes to enhance their skill and market values. Under it, about one million youths are being targeted for training.
The programme offers skillset building in artificial intelligence, user exchange design, user inter-phase design, web development and android development courses among others.
“We are very pleased to tell you that NITDA has signed a partnership with Coursera and it is a three-year partnership. We are going to be providing this scholarship to Nigerians for three years in total,” said NITDA’s Director General, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi while welcoming participants to the second cohort.
Represented by the agency’s Acting Director, Digital Literacy and Capacity Development Department, Dr Amina Sambo, he revealed that over 150,000 applications were received.
According to Coursera Senior Customer Success Manager, Mr. Khaled Al-Kokhon, the training platform is the largest online education company with over one 100 million learners globally who get access to Coursera content with courses from top universities such as Duke, Yale, Princeton and many more.
