NITDA is partnering with the National Association of Women in Colleges of Education to launch a nationwide programme focused on digital literacy, entrepreneurship and STEM training for female educators and the students they support.
The proposed collaboration was discussed during a meeting at NITDA’s headquarters, where the association’s North-West Zonal Coordinator, Zainab Inuwa Adamu, invited NITDA Director-General Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi to serve as patron of the association’s forthcoming national conference.
Adamu highlighted the association’s more than three-decade history of supporting female educators and empowering young girls through practical vocational training, including tailoring, knitting and soap-making. The proposed partnership with NITDA is expected to expand this work into digital skills and technology.
Abdullahi welcomed the invitation and stressed the importance of sustained capacity building rather than one-off interventions. He proposed developing digital literacy and IT skills programmes for members of the association, with a nationwide rollout potentially launched at the upcoming conference.
The planned training would also cover digital marketing, business planning and entrepreneurship to help women strengthen their economic ventures. The initiative is expected to extend beyond educators, with mentorship opportunities cascading to the girls they support.
As part of NITDA’s gender-inclusive innovation agenda, Abdullahi also emphasised the need to expand the STEM pipeline and encourage more young women to pursue careers in artificial intelligence, data science and other technology fields. He further committed to providing digital tools and learning materials and invited the association to participate in the Digital Nigeria Conference 2026.
Both organisations expressed readiness to collaborate on using technology to empower women educators and create more opportunities for the next generation of Nigerian girls.
