Tag Archive For "Nigeria"
in IWD, Special Campaigns
How about #SkillforEqual?
Which is why at SkillNG, our campaign theme for IWD2020 is #SkillforEqual. The world is increasingly global, and the borders that separate countries continue to dissolve in the way that we work especially as it relates to current and emerging roles in Tech.
in General
TEF 2020: SkillNG Free Application Drive
As an entrepreneur, you face a lot of challenges trying to bring your ideas to life. These challenges varies from your ability, market readiness, funding, product viability and so on. But don’t worry, the Tony Elumelu Foundation, one of the top few NGOs dedicated to African startup growth has got you covered. The Foundation gives …
KIRIJI GAMES Season 2.0
WHAT IS KÍRÌJÍ? Kiriji is a gaming competition designed by SkillNG. SkillNG is a skill development and talent management startup that makes it possible for young people to learn the most in-demand digital and entrepreneurship global skills through a peer to peer learning network. In less than 2 years, we have trained over 2,000 youths …
in Co-play, Feeling Station, Kiriji
KIRIJI WAR…only the skilled survive
In the world of today, just like the world of those days, skills are inevitable for survival. It is just that the quality and types of skills needed are dynamic. Humans are changing, the world is changing, and hence developing necessary skills to match these changes is inevitable. Kiriji War is a gaming competition specially …
in Co-play, Development
FEELING STATION: Here is What Happened
A participant at the recently launched FEELING STATION; the co-play arm of SkillNG was heard saying “it appears that MESSI has taken another form in the city of Ibadan”. In retrospect, I also felt no one could be this skilled at what he does than a talented Messi or a trained Ronaldo. Talented or Trained, …
SkillNG Holds Skills Acquisition Programme for Students on #ASUU Strike
December is here, herald of holidays and harmattan. It also makes it a month since the Academic staff union of universities went on an indefinite strike. In line with its mission, SkillNG, a startup that connects tutors to learners who want to learn vocational, entrepreneurship, digital and professional skills, has organized a training session tagged …
Don’t Be A #LAWS Student
So you just graduated from a prestigious university in Nigeria. Congratulations my brother/sister. This is indeed an incredible feat and you deserve an award for achieving this. It takes an extra ordinary individual to survive 4-7 years of tertiary education in Nigeria without losing their sanity. I’m sure you must have heard how challenging and …
in Lagos
Three Tips To Help You Learn a New Skill
[SkillNG]–Many people believe that graduating from school means that active learning has to end. However, they would soon realise that what they learnt at school is not sufficient; workplace is a tense and competitive learning place. Whether we like this news or not, employees are constantly being judged on their capabilities and benchmarked against their …
When we talk about skills, let your minds not be narrowed
[SkillNG]–Formal education is important, however, learning a skill is much more important. Many people today cannot find a place in the labour market because they cannot say for sure that this is the skill they have neither are they willing to bring anything to the table of employment. Studying a particular course is not enough, …
Benefits of Learning Graphics Design
[SkillNG]–Have you ever seen a very alluring advert, clearly pictorially represented and subtly sending a message? Or have you ever been blown away by the creativity embedded in a billboard display or a poster? The world is rapidly evolving, attention spans are decreasing and one of the surest and easiest ways to get information about …
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