By Chika Okeke
The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, and National Association of Women in Colleges of Education, NAWCE, has concluded plans to unveil a nationwide digital literacy, entrepreneurship, and STEM training initiative, aimed at empowering female educators and their students.
During a meeting at NITDA Headquarters in Abuja, the North-West Zonal Coordinator, Zainab Inuwa Adamu highlighted the associations over three-decade legacy of protecting female educators and empowering young girls through hands-on vocational workshops in skills like tailoring, knitting and soap-making.
She officially invited the Director-General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi to serve as Patron for the Associations’s upcoming national conference of Federal Colleges of Education.
While welcoming the invitation, the DG harped on the need for lasting capacity building over one-off support.
He proposed designing digital literacy and IT skills programmes for the Association’s members, with a nationwide rollout that could be launched at the conference.
The initiative would also cover digital marketing, business planning and entrepreneurship training to strengthen women’s economic ventures.
Abdullahi hinted that the STEM pipeline would be expanded to enable more young women to enrol in programmes such as Artificial Intelligence, AI, data science and technology careers that offer high-value opportunities.
He underscored NITDA’s gender-inclusive innovation agenda, adding that the Agency is committed to providing digital tools and learning materials, just as he invited the association to the Digital Nigeria Conference 2026.
Both sides affirmed their readiness to collaborate in empowering women educators and the next generation of girls through technology.
