Nigeria now has one place to see who is teaching digital skills, and where. The first numbers show that three groups did most of the work.
Nigeria’s tech agency, NITDA, has launched the National Digital Literacy Dashboard. It tracks digital skills training across the country. It helps trainers work together and backs policy built on data. So far it holds 2,769,512 reported training achievements from 252 organisations over three years. They cover all 774 local government areas and 14,664 communities. Officials can use it to find areas left out, stop repeat training and send help where it is needed.
Three names stand out. Cisco reported the most, at 1,073,604. NITDA follows with 960,424, and Meta is third with 333,816. Together that is about 2.37 million, or roughly 85% of the total. The other 249 groups share about 400,000. They include Imo Digital City Limited, the Sokoto State Ministry of Innovation and Digital Economy, digital agencies in Jigawa, Kaduna and Zamfara states, and CITAD, a civil society group.
The dashboard counts training achievements that groups report through the platform. That shows how much training activity is going on. It is not the same as the number of people trained, since one person can finish more than one course.
The launch backs Nigeria’s targets of 70% digital literacy by 2027 and 95% by 2030. In mid-2025, NITDA put the current rate at 50%, up from 44% in 2021. The agency also built a National Digital Literacy Framework. It lists the skills Nigerians should have, from basic to advanced. The dashboard gives agencies, firms and other groups one shared place to report and track progress.
Why it matters: Training in Nigeria comes from many hands: federal and state agencies, global tech firms and local groups. A shared dashboard can show which states and communities are being reached and which are being missed. It also shows how much of the work rests on a few big names. States and smaller trainers can use the data to see where their efforts fit.
What to watch next: whether more state agencies and community groups start to report, whether future updates show unique learners as well as achievements, and whether the national rate moves towards the 2027 target.
Sources: TechAfrica News on the NITDA dashboard; Techeconomy on NITDA and UBEC’s digital literacy targets; Technology Times on the National Digital Literacy Framework. The share of the total is our arithmetic from the reported figures.
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