Nigeria’s and federal government quest to build an army of three million technical talent in the Information Technology now has the support of Nigeria and Africa’s largest telecommunications infrastructure providers IHS Towers. The N1 billion (US $1.1 million) support is to build learning communities in the 36 States and Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It also includes the payment of salaries for 37 dedicate learning community managers for each of the location for three years. Nigeria’s seeking to transform the scale of supply of technical talent in the country and for global needs through the Three million technical talent (3MTT) programme. The three-month programme in the first phase is focused on key technical areas such as software development, UI / UX design, data analysis and visualization, product management, data science, animation, Ai, and machine learning etc.
