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Programmes

Training for everyone, everywhere in Nigeria

CDTIN trains people everywhere in Nigeria. Courses run online, free, and open to anyone in the country, alongside programmes delivered with partners in particular states.

Every training sits under one or more of these sections; browse a section to see what it holds.

Featured now

Open to anyone in Nigeria

CDTIN, with the City Boy Movement

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.

A.IEntrepreneurshipCorporate

Anyone in Nigeria Online Open for enrollment

CDTIN, with the City Boy Movement

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.

A.IMedia

Anyone in Nigeria aged 18 or over Online Open for enrollment

CDTIN, with the City Boy Movement

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.

A.IEntrepreneurshipFashion

Anyone in Nigeria Online Open for enrollment

CDTIN, with the City Boy Movement

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.

A.IMedia

Anyone in Nigeria Online Open for enrollment

The seven sections

Browse by section

A training may sit under more than one section, because a skill rarely belongs to one trade only. Open a section to see everything filed under it.

6 trainings

A.I

Using artificial intelligence tools to think, research, create and work.

6 trainings

Media

Design, content, video, photography and the platforms that carry them.

3 trainings

Marketing

Finding customers, understanding them and selling to them.

5 trainings

Entrepreneurship

Starting, running and growing a business.

1 training

Fashion

Design, tailoring, production and the business of fashion.

1 training

Agriculture

Farming, livestock, processing and the agricultural value chain.

2 trainings

Corporate

Skills for the workplace: office tools, communication, management.

Opening soon

Announced trainings

These are announced, not yet open. Register your interest and you will be told the moment registration opens.

Brandly Media

Modern Marketing Research Tactics

How to find out what your customers actually want, using the tools and the tactics marketers use today.

MediaMarketingEntrepreneurship

Anyone in Nigeria Online

Dreamovert Studios

Generative AI Basics

What generative AI is, what it can and cannot do, and how to use it for ideas, writing, images and research.

A.IMedia

Anyone in Nigeria Online

Nafiu Batore

Graphics Design Basics

The foundations of graphic design: layout, type, colour and the tools to produce work people will pay for.

MediaMarketing

Anyone in Nigeria Online