Applications are currently welcome from all qualified candidates interested in the Lagos State Digital Skills Training Program by  gaining basic digital skills in Microsoft packages, Front-end development, DevOps, and many more.Â
The Lagos State Digital Skills Training Program is an initiative of The Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund.
Abstract
Scholarship Details
We are excited to announce that the Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) has partnered with Microsoft and Tech4Dev to train 100,000 residents of Lagos in Basic Digital Skills.
Digital Skills Nigeria (DSN) is a multi-year, multi-stakeholder private-public-non-profit partnership designed by Microsoft for the purpose of building the capacity of key government MDAs to offer sustainable, scalable reskilling and employment services aligned to the local labor markets.
Requirements
Requirements:
- Be a Nigerian
- Be available to complete the training
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Benefits and Timeline
The program focuses on providing access to digital skills training (from digital literacy to advanced training) for young people in Nigeria between the ages of 16-35 years.Â
- Youth Employability Upskilling
The program aims to create a more employable youth population, reducing unemployment and underemployment across the country.
- Institutional Strengthening
This will build institutional capacity for federal MDAs to deliver on skilling and employability by increasing the technology competence of the civil service.
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Available Courses
The Digital Skills Nigeria Basic Digital Literacy
The Basic Digital Skilling component of the Digital Skill Nigeria program provides you with the opportunity to get an endorsed certificate for your Basic Digital Literacy competence.
- Learning Mode: Self-paced
- Required Learning Duration: 40 hours (Minimum)
- Work with computers
- Access information online
- Communication Online
- Participate Safely and Responsibly Online
- Create Digital Content
- Collaborate and Manage Content Digitally
- Microsoft Office 365
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Word.
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel.
Digital Skills Nigeria Advanced Certification
The Advanced certification component of the Digital Skills Nigeria program provides training and Industry recognized certification in the following specializations :
- Security Administrator (MS-500)
- Azure Data Scientist (DP-100)
- Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500)
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
- Azure DevOps Engineer (AZ-400)
- Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300)
Application Procedure
- Click on the link below to proceed with your application