Nigeria · free online training
Skills that turn into an income, anywhere in Nigeria.
Four free courses, taken on your phone at your own pace, wherever you live. Our target is 100,000 people trained online in 2026.
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Implemented by the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Capacity Development, under the supervision of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The course pictures are illustrations of the work, not photographs of participants.
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Pick a course
Every course is free and runs online. Choose the one you want from the catalogue — nothing depends on where in the country you live.
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Seven modules, on your phone
Taken at your own pace: each module is a lesson, a task to do where you are, and a short quiz. Nothing closes, so a busy week costs you nothing.
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Finish, and get your certificate
Pass the final assessment and your certificate is issued on the platform, with a code anyone can verify. You leave with something you made, not just something you watched.
The courses
Four courses, each built to earn from
Every course is free and runs online, so where you live decides nothing about whether you can take it.
Seven modules online, on your phone, free
AI for Productivity
How to get real work done with an AI assistant — not tricks and prompt lists, but a way of working you keep. You arrive with a job you have been struggling to finish. You leave having finished it, with a method and a context file you reuse on every job after this one.
You finish holding: One real piece of your own work, finished end to end with an AI assistant and good enough to send to the person who asked for it — plus your own written context file and brief templates, which make the next job faster than this one was.
Seven modules online, on your phone, free
Generative Media
Make films and content with AI, starting on Google Flow because it is free to reach from Nigeria. Seven modules from an idea to a finished short film you have published — story, shots, generation, voice, sound and the cut.
You finish holding: Your own finished short film — written, generated, voiced, cut and published, with a title and your name on it — plus the prompt and shot sheets that made it, so planning the second one takes a day instead of a week.
Seven modules online, on your phone, free
Fashion & Design with AI
Design clothes and brands with AI, and get them made. Seven modules from a sketch nobody can sew to a finished collection a tailor can cut, a lookbook a buyer can read, and a price you can defend.
You finish holding: Your own small collection — six to eight pieces designed, specified and priced — presented as a lookbook a buyer or tailor can work from, with at least one piece actually sewn or costed to the last button.
Seven modules online, on your phone, free
Video Editing with AI
Edit video properly, with AI doing the slow parts. Seven modules from raw phone footage to a finished, graded, captioned cut you are paid for — and the speed that lets you take the next job.
You finish holding: One finished cut of your own — assembled, sound-fixed, graded, captioned, titled and exported to the right size for where it is going — plus a second cut of the same footage for a different platform, which is how the job is actually paid.
About the initiative
Delivered under the authority of the Presidency
The Capacity Development Training Initiative is implemented by the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Capacity Development, under the supervision of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
Track record
What the initiative has already delivered
Figures are stated only at the level the surviving records evidence.
In January and February 2025 the initiative delivered a five-track training programme at the Atlas Training and Development Institute in Kano State, issued signed Certificates of Completion, and awarded ₦1,700,000 in prizes to three ventures at a pitch competition on 1 February 2025. It received 401 applications for 200 places in two days.
No participant-trained figure, completion rate or outcome statistic is published until the record that supports it is in hand. What is withheld, and why, is listed in full.
Photographs
From the training floor
Photographed at the programme delivered in Kano State in January and February 2025. No image here depicts the Nasarawa State pilot.
Take part
Ready to start?
Pick a course and start it today, on the phone you are holding. Every course is free, and there is no fee at any stage.