Abuja, Nov. 17, 2025 – The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is to train 50 million Nigerians in digital literacy to raise the nation’s digital literacy level to 70 percent by 2027.
Kashifu Inuwa, its Director-General, disclosed this to journalists in Abuja at the weekend.
He said the training is also to recalibrate Nigeria’s digital journey and ecosystems to boost Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The NITDA boss said the training is targeting three major sectors of education, the public service, and the informal economy,
He said the president had approved an accelerated implementation of the programme to pave the way for the socio-economic transformation of the country.
The NITDA boss said the training is being implemented in three buckets together with critical stakeholders,
“We are doing it in three buckets. Firstly, we’ve worked with the Ministry of Education.
“We’ve done pilot programmes with some universities, making digital literacy a general study in universities, the same way we take the English language.
“Then the second bucket is that we are working with the Head of Civil Service of the Federation to train all public servants.
“So far, we have more than 30,000 public civil servants enrolled in our digital literacy training platform.
“We are doing the same thing with states. Some states have already domesticated our digital literacy framework within their system.
“So we are partnering with them to train all workers.
“Then we have the informal sector, where we are partnering with the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.
“We have already created a CDA group under NYSC, where we recruit champions in NYSC camps. So, NYSC has three batches and six streams in a year.,” he said.
