As a response to direct implementation of National Digital
Economic Framework by His Excellency President Bola H.
Tinubu, looking this directive by his Excellency, it is very clear
that it will affect so many people without the ICT skill both in
the government and non-government sector. At the
moment, there is great skills gap that exists in Africa,
especially in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. The gap
is between skilled and non-skilled workers. This has created a
huge unemployment among Nigerian youths that is now
endemic. Many graduate youths in Nigeria cannot put
bread and TEA on the table. Nigeria today has one of the
highest numbers of unskilled workforce in the job market. A
two year survey carried out reveal that Nigerian graduate
youths are unemployed because they are unemployable.
They simply do not have the necessary skills that employers
require in a complex business world dominated by ICT. The
Nigerian educational system is flawed in design to
emphasize the acquisition of head knowledge rather than
practical (SKILL) application of knowledge. I have met a
computer science graduate from Nigeria who has never
touched a PC. Needless, to say this is the lot of many
graduate youths scattered across the country looking for
jobs endlessly. The unemployment crises in Nigeria have
reached a climax that if left unchecked could resort into
social unrest. It is to this end that we want to make a
difference. We want to borrow a leave from the EU and
promote systematic skills acquisition in Africa, particularly
Nigeria.