The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, has outlined the agency’s goal to achieve 95% digital literacy in Nigeria by 2030 through the integration of digital skills into the national school curriculum.
Inuwa made this statement during the National Stakeholders Dialogue and High-Level Policy Committee meeting on the Review of Basic Education Curriculum, hosted by the Nigerian Educational Research & Development Council (NERDC).
Inuwa says that NITDA is working to ensure that digital literacy is embedded in the education system at every level, from nursery to university.
“This initiative,” the NITDA DG says, “is in line with President Bola Tinubu’s mandate to accelerate economic diversification by boosting productivity in critical sectors through technological innovation, with the aim of achieving 95% digital literacy by 2030.”
He adds that the meeting is aimed to review and ratify the structure and benchmarks of the basic education curriculum, which will guide NERDC in designing a new curriculum that meets the needs of Nigerian students in an increasingly digital world.
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