The Quiet Revolution Happening in Tech Hubs, Classrooms and Danfos
Nigerian educational institutions are beginning to make changes to adapt to AI, but they are still catching up compared to global counterparts. The most proactive universities are embedding AI literacy, ethical awareness, and digital recruitment training into their programs and curriculum. However, many schools remain focused on traditional career prep, meaning students themselves must take extra initiative to learn how to beat AI filters and showcase unique human skills.
Universities such as University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Obafemi Awolowo University, Covenant University, and Ahmadu Bello University now offer AI-related courses and research opportunities. These programs emphasize machine learning, data science, and automation, equipping students with technical knowledge that aligns with global recruitment trends.
These programs emphasize machine learning, data science, and automation, equipping students with technical knowledge that aligns with global recruitment trends. Students are encouraged to build digital portfolios and LinkedIn profiles that are algorithm friendly.
The Wini University in Epe Lagos is Nigeria’s first AI-dedicated institution, signaling a shift in specialized education. This positively indicates acute appreciation of the inevitability of AI in shaping culture and future human endeavors.
More universities that are yet to assimilate or cater for AI education within their regular curriculum and encouraging the students to seek internship in Nigeria’s growing tech ecosystem like fintechs and startups in Lagos and Abuja, expose students to AI literacy and recruitment tools used in hiring.
Aggregately, Nigeria’s educational efforts to close the AI literacy and dependency gap is just starting to gain attention, yet progress has been uneven. Progress has been strongest in cities like Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, where exposure continues to fuel individual efforts to close the gap has been rampant. Youths are accessing online courses to advance their personal AI literacy and private tech educationists are offering digital training on AI literacy. These informal and personal efforts are helping in no small measure to close this gap.
Fonxxa Technology Limited is one such private organization dedicated to helping youths and job seekers bridge the AI-literacy gap. With its solution, PreWrite-AI, Fonxxa Tech Limited is aspiring to do one better than provide access to AI-literacy. It will provide a tool that would help every job seekers gain the advantage or benefit offered by AI as well as get through the gates manned by AI-driven interception in the recruitment processes.
Through access to PreWrite-AI, job seekers will acquire a tool that would astronomically improve their chance of getting selected for interview because PreWrite is fitted with features that would bring immediate competitiveness, time and efficiency, personalized communication, and Networking referrals to mention a few of the transformative features.
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