A joint Airtel Africa and UNICEF delegation, with government partners, don visit schools and youth programmes for Lagos to see how the partnership with the Government of Nigeria dey expand access to free digital learning, skills and livelihood opportunities. Garreth Spillane, Chief of Staff to the Chairman of Airtel Africa, lead the Airtel Africa delegation.
Students, teachers and young people for Lagos show how free digital learning and skills platforms dey open more opportunities from classroom reach employment.
For Government Senior College, Agege, and St George’s U. N. A. Primary School, the delegation see students and teachers dey use digital learning, including AI. Young people for Yaba College of Technology show how Passport to Earning and the Youth Agency Marketplace, wey dem also call YOMA, dey build digital, employability and entrepreneurship skills and dey open pathways to mentorship, internships and livelihoods.
The partnership don connect nearly 2,000 schools across Nigeria, reach about 1 million students and more than 20,000 teachers. More than 19,000 teachers among them don train for digital literacy.
By zero-rating the Nigeria Learning Passport, the Federal Ministry of Education’s Inspire and Ignite platforms, the Digital National Education Management Information System and YOMA, the partnership dey remove data-cost barriers to learning. The Nigeria Learning Passport alone get more than 2.5 million registered students and nearly one hundred thousand registered teachers.
For Abuja, the delegation meet the Office of the Vice President and the Federal Ministry of Education to push reliable connectivity, quality content, teacher training, inclusive design, stronger data systems, child online safety and sustainable financing for better learning outcomes. The partners reaffirm their commitment to these priorities.
