NITDA trains teachers to boost digital literacy across Nigeria

Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has trained 3,600 teachers across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as part of a significant nationwide push to boost digital literacy.

NITDA stated the newly empowered educators will return to their respective schools and communities to train colleagues and students, employing a scalable ‘train-the-trainer’ model to maximise the initiative’s impact and rapidly close the digital divide.

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The training, conducted under the ‘Digital Literacy for All’ (DL4ALL) initiative, is designed to create a pool of master-trainers who will cascade essential digital skills throughout the nation’s education system. The programme combined several weeks of virtual learning with an intensive two-day physical workshop held in Abuja.

According to NITDA, the newly empowered educators will return to their respective schools and communities to train colleagues and students, employing a scalable ‘train-the-trainer’ model to maximise the initiative’s impact and rapidly close the digital divide.

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The agency stated that the DL4ALL initiative is central to its mandate of preparing Nigeria’s education sector for the demands of the 21st-century economy, ensuring the country’s alignment with global digital transformation trends.

This large-scale teacher training is viewed as an essential foundational component supporting the Federal Government’s ambitious “3 Million Technical Talent Programme (3MTT).” By ensuring educators are digitally proficient, NITDA is laying the groundwork for achieving national digital-economy goals and building a robust technical workforce by 2027.

Folake Balogun is a renowned tech journalist who offers insightful and critical analysis of the African rapidly growing digital economy, particularly within Nigeria. She closely monitors the health of the African startup ecosystem by covering significant venture capital trends, investment deals, and the challenges faced by emerging firms. Known for her deep dives into the fintech sector, she covers the evolution of digital payments, dynamics of major financial innovations and also extends to emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the future of connectivity by providing context to their economic and social impact.

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