100 Graduates Get Free Digital Skills Training In Lagos

The Knowledge Exchange Centre has announced the launch of its latest Graduate Digital Skills Programme , saying 100 young graduates have been given free digital training across the country.

With the move, the centre is expected to train over 100 graduates to bridge technology skills gaps and plug back the leakages and dearth of skills across the country.

The executive secretary of KEC, Oluwatosin Ogunsanya, during the orientation ceremony for the GAP Digital Skill programme in Lagos, expressed the commitment of the organisation to bridge technology skills gap with the free digital skill training of youths.

He said for the programme, they are admitting 100 young graduates across the country to participate in their graduate advancement programme.

He explained they started the programme in 2015 to help graduates bridge the skills between what employers want and what they lacked, adding that they are focusing on digital skills, “and we have been in it for the past three years. 

The skills we are focusing on are social media management.”

He remarked that the 100 persons that were admitted into the programme, would be mentored by 25 professionals across the digital marketing industry in Nigeria, alongside one or two persons abroad.

According to him, “They are going through a three-month programme in addition to their social media marketing programme, so they have an eight weeks social media marketing programme, six weeks on mentoring and three weeks of job readiness training.

‘’ In addition to the digital marketing training programme, we will teach them how to get a job and keep a job. We will equip them with problem solving and critical thinking skills. So, this is the start of the three months journey that will end in May,’’ he said.