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We will start tonight’s letter with this worrying stat:

At the end of each academic year, Nigerian universities produce about 600,000 graduates. A report by GetBundi, a Nigerian STEM and Digital Skills Institute says that about 85% of these graduates do not have digital skills.

“I worked with four interns [and NYSC members] within the past few months & not a single one of them knew what Google Docs is,” says Pamela Ephraim, a Nigerian journalist. The report names this lack of digital skills as one of the major reasons why most graduates in the country are unable to secure employment.

Last updated: December 26, 2024