Massive Investment In IT-driven Skills Will Curb Nigeria’s Unemployment – Aptech

In its 25 years of operations successful Nigeria, Aptech has go 1 of the world’s large players successful vocational and technology-driven education. It has empowered its 100,000 youths with accusation exertion (IT) skills astatine section and planetary levels.

Consequently, it has appealed to the Nigerian authorities and different captious stakeholders to put massively successful globally competitory skills successful accusation technology, multimedia and animation to curb the increasing unemployment among the country’s youths.

To alteration much Nigerians to payment from its services, the institution has unveiled a program to summation its grooming centres nationwide from 60 to 100.
At the planetary level, Aptech has partnered with Middlesex University to let its graduates to implicit their bachelor’s degrees successful the United Kingdom wrong 1 year.

Aptech reiterated its unwavering committedness to equipping Nigerian youths with caller accusation technology, multimedia and animation skills.

Top institution officials made these revelations astatine the 17th variation of its flagship acquisition enlightenment event, Career Quest, held successful Abuja connected Monday to people the 25th day of Aptech’s operations successful Nigeria.

In his address, the managing director/CEO of Aptech Nigeria, Mr. Rajeev Venugopal, reflected connected the organisation’s travel and its transformative interaction connected Nigeria’s acquisition and employment landscape.
He said, “We started this ngo successful 2000, arsenic Nigeria entered a caller millennium. Back then, I saw that galore young Nigerians, contempt holding degrees, struggled to find meaningful employment. That was the infinitesimal I realised thing had to change.”

Venugopa noted that this realisation led to a strategical concern with Aptech Global, 1 of the world’s renowned IT grooming institutions.

According to him, the collaboration led to the commencement of the archetypal Aptech centre successful Maryland, Lagos, which has since evolved into a nationwide web that has trained and empowered implicit 100,000 Nigerian youths.

“These are not conscionable trained individuals,” Venugopal said, adding, “they are empowered professionals who person taken complaint of their futures.”

He said the Career Quest had played a pivotal relation successful helping Nigerian students entree top-tier acquisition overseas and unafraid high-value roles successful the planetary IT industry.

Venugopal appreciated Aptech’s staff, students, and alumni, attributing the institution’s continued occurrence to their dedication and content successful the company’s vision.

“Your occurrence is our success. Your maturation is what drives america each azygous day. To our dedicated unit – you are the psyche of our organisation,” helium said.

On his part, the enforcement vice president of Aptech Limited, Mr. Kallol Mukherjee, highlighted Aptech’s ngo arsenic a “skilling company” focused connected employability.

“We person trained much than 100,000 students successful IT, multimedia and animation – making them employable and giving them entree to world-class acquisition with the latest contented and curriculum,” helium said.

He explained that Aptech’s unsocial world pathway allows Nigerian students to prevention up to 71% of the full outgo of a UK grade by studying 2 years successful Nigeria and completing the last twelvemonth successful the United Kingdom.

Speaking connected Nigeria’s increasing unemployment challenge, Mukherjee stressed the value of IT skills. “Technology drives planetary competitiveness. IT is astatine the core, whether it is medicine, banking, infrastructure, oregon insurance. Nigeria has a ample and vibrant younker colonisation – erstwhile this is matched with IT education, the imaginable for nationalist improvement is immense,” helium asserted

Reflecting connected the organisation’s growth, Mukherjee acknowledged the request to grow beyond large cities and bring prime IT acquisition person to underserved communities.

“We presently person 60 centres crossed Nigeria, but our extremity is to scope 100 centres truthful that Aptech becomes a household sanction nationwide. That’s our challenge, and we are afloat committed to gathering it.”

In addition, the determination manager for Africa astatine Middlesex University, Mrs. Oluchi Mwambara, explained that the instauration has developed a pathway allowing Aptech graduates to implicit their bachelor’s degrees successful the United Kingdom wrong 1 year.

“Middlesex University and Aptech Education person formed an world concern done an articulation agreement. Students astatine Aptech who implicit precocious diplomas – specified arsenic successful bundle engineering – tin advancement to a final-year programme astatine Middlesex,” she said.