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Solving Nigeria’s Unemployment with IT Job Creation
There is no doubt that the current economic recession being experienced here in Nigeria is adversely affecting quite a lot of the citizens of this country.
Many manufacturing as well s services oriented companies have continually laid off staff in order to reduce costs and stay afloat.
The recent statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed the in one year, between October 2015 and September 2016, a whooping 3.67 million Nigerians lost their jobs!
The hopes of many unemployed in landing a job in any of the existing companies are also becoming slim by the day. One area, I am sure, however, that many of these unemployed as well as those who have lost their jobs to this recession can turn to for succor is the IT industry. I believe that this area is one that still has more than an ample space for those who are ready to kick-start legitimate online money making ventures.
The truth is that, although, lots of scams can be found online, there are still actually a lot of work that people can legitimately do, and are in fact, currently doing online, from which they can make good income.
One advantage of engaging in online work is that you can set up your work space right in the comfort of your home and operate from there.
By doing this, you will be saving yourself the problem of looking for an office space to rent as well as the other accompanying costs that running an office will entail.
Interestingly, working from home is not a new phenomenon just as earning money online is not. For many decades, scores of famous writers, artists and performers are widely known to have worked their way through various home-based programs and the tradition seems to be never ending.
Craftsmen, for instance, generally lived on the same premises as the ones in which they had their shops. Most brick and wall traders today also have their shops attached to their places of abode, hence, working from home can truly be rated among the most time honored human traditions that we know of today.
With the advent of the incredible computer and, a significantly huge number of people went on a voyage of rediscovery – seeking out the golden principles of ingeniously developed ‘work at home’ jobs. In more recent times, unique facilities, along with unlimited opportunities, offered by the use of the internet has rapidly increased the demand, as well as encouraged a vast number of those who have bravely risen to meet this enormously huge demand.
Armed with the new knowledge of how to earn money through the internet by offering numerous income-generating opportunities, they have gladly accepted the prospects put forward.
Technology has now blessed us with the internet today which has eased up the way we communicate, interact and engage with one another. These are the hallmarks that make the conduct of business to thrive.
I know of many Tech businesses these days that conclude most of their business transactions online without physically meeting their clients. What they do is that they project their line of business through a well constructed website which showcases all the businesses they engage in and market these through their social media platforms of Facebook, Twitter, etc.
It will interest you to note that most of these tech-business owners have never personally met almost 90% of their clients but they relate and do business online.
Most of their clients get to know about them through their websites, blogs and social media platforms. These clients contact them and they start conversations that leads to striking business deals which are carried out and delivered to the clients, all these without physical contacts with each other.
Some of the things you can set up to do online from home include Website Designing, Social Media Marketing, Online Virtual Assistant work, Affiliate Marketing, Writing, Editing, Graphic Designing, etc.
To enable you to work from home engaging in some of these businesses, you need to learn and be a reference point on them to gain the confidence and trust of clients.
To enable you to effectively work from home, you will also need to acquire some basic things such as, a Laptop, internet modem and access to constant electricity. Government should improve the state of these infrastructures to ease the work of those interested in the IT business.
There are also many online sites where you can offer your services as mentioned above so that people interested in your skills can patronize and hire you as well as pay you through those platforms.
You will, have to pay such platforms a token out of each payment you receive for work done through their platforms.
Affiliate Marketing is also a business that you can also carry out online from home. It is a globally known phenomenon, which has now become a household name to everyone who even seldom makes any use of the Internet.
According to Wikipedia, Affiliate Marketing is a performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.
Earning money through online affiliate search engine marketing is a lucrative way of earning on a constant scale.
It is a sustainable source of producing a steady income by working from home. In reality, making genuine money through online affiliate programs requires getting to learn the true secrets.
There are countless other things you can legitimately do online to make money while working from home. All you need to do is to find the opportunities that exists online and key into one that you are passionate about.
You must not allow the wind of this current economic recession blow you out of existence. Take action today.
INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026 revealed that Artificial intelligence accounts for 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa and making attacks faster, more sophisticated and increasingly difficult to detect.
The report warns that the continent’s rapid digital transformation, marked by more than 1.1 billion mobile subscribers in 2025, is being matched by an equally rapid evolution in cybercrime, while fragmented legislation and limited AI readiness among law enforcement agencies continue to weaken responses.
The 40-page assessment, based on survey data from 36 African member countries, said cybercrime has shifted from isolated criminal activity to an industrialised, borderless ecosystem powered by AI.
According to the report, East Africa has become a hotspot for mobile money fraud and ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure, while business email compromise (BEC) and romance scams are widespread across Central and West Africa.
Southern Africa, it noted, has become an attractive target for international cybercriminals due to its high level of internet connectivity.
The report also highlighted the growing financial impact of cybercrime across the continent, revealing that losses have more than doubled since 2024, rising from 192 million dollars to 484 million dollars.
It attributed the increase largely to AI-enabled scams, credential harvesting and automated social engineering attacks.
INTERPOL said online scams remained the most commonly reported form of cybercrime in 2025, with criminals exploiting mobile money platforms, social media and AI-generated content to deceive victims.
It added that 72 per cent of surveyed countries reported the existence of scam centres, with the highest concentration recorded in Southern and West Africa.
The report further identified digital sextortion and online harassment as persistent threats, driven increasingly by AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic media.
According to data from TrendAI, one of INTERPOL’s partners, about 600,000 sextortion incidents were detected during the reporting period.
Business email compromise schemes have also become more sophisticated, with AI being used to generate highly convincing email communications.
The report said Africa-based threat actors are increasingly targeting victims in Europe and North America using cyber infrastructure spread across multiple jurisdictions.
INTERPOL warned that the absence of real-time information sharing between banks, telecommunications companies and law enforcement agencies has created significant vulnerabilities in tackling financial cybercrime.
It said cybercriminals are no longer relying solely on stolen credentials but are now creating AI-generated synthetic identities by combining genuine personal information with fabricated details.
These synthetic identities, the report noted, have been used to bypass biometric verification systems, open bank accounts, obtain mobile loans and register SIM cards under false identities.
Neal Jetton, Director of INTERPOL’s Cybercrime Directorate, described cybercrime as one of the most significant criminal threats facing Africa.
“Cybercrime has emerged as one of the most significant criminal threats to the region. AI is automating every stage of a cyberattack from reconnaissance and phishing to extortion and evasion.
“However, we see that when countries work together, cybercriminal infrastructure can be identified, disrupted and dismantled,” he said.
Despite the growing threat, the report highlighted progress in strengthening cybersecurity across the continent.
It disclosed that 17 African countries enacted or amended cybercrime legislation in 2025, while Senegal launched an online reporting platform to improve responses to online offences affecting children.
The report also noted that regional capacity-building initiatives are helping to improve long-term cyber resilience.
INTERPOL said four major cybercrime operations conducted in 2025, Operation Serengeti 2.0, Operation Contender 3.0, Operation Sentinel and Operation Red Card 2.0, resulted in more than 1,500 arrests, the seizure of hundreds of electronic devices and the recovery of over 100 million dollars.
To address the growing threat, the report recommended the adoption of standardised digital forensic capabilities, stronger cross-border collaboration, greater investment in AI literacy for law enforcement personnel and formal public-private partnerships to improve cybercrime prevention, detection and response.
The African Cyberthreat Assessment 2026 forms part of INTERPOL’s African Joint Operation against Cybercrime initiative, funded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with data contributions from Fortinet, Mastercard, the Shadowserver Foundation, S2W and TrendAI.
Nigerian students will soon design, assemble, test and fly drones as part of their university education, following a partnership between Miva Open University and Abuja-based defence technology company Terra Industries.
The collaboration comes as Nigeria intensifies efforts to develop indigenous capabilities in advanced manufacturing and defence technology, with both organisations seeking to strengthen Africa’s pipeline of deep-tech talent.
The partnership will see students gain hands-on experience in drone engineering and related technologies through dedicated labs and industry collaboration.
The partners will establish robotics, drone and virtual reality laboratories across Miva’s study centres, beginning with a pilot facility in Abuja.
Students will also gain access to industry-led workshops, research opportunities, internships and mentorship in artificial intelligence, robotics, cybersecurity and autonomous systems.
According to the partners, Terra’s engineering teams will work alongside Miva faculty to integrate hands-on hardware training into academic programmes, exposing students to real-world engineering challenges and building industry experience before graduation.
Nathan Nwachuku, co-founder and CEO of Terra Industries, said Africa’s technological future depends on developing engineers capable of building solutions for local challenges.
“The engineers who will build Africa’s future must learn by building. This partnership creates opportunities for students to work with the technologies shaping modern security, infrastructure and autonomous systems,” said Nwachuku.
Miva Open University said the initiative forms part of its commitment to experiential learning, adding that students will have the opportunity to “design, test and fly drones as part of their academic experience”.
The partnership builds on Terra’s expanding role in Nigeria’s defence technology sector. Earlier this year, the company signed a joint venture with the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria to localise the production of drones, robotics systems and cybersecurity infrastructure, supporting efforts to strengthen domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on imports.
Atte Ayodeji, a Nigerian computer scientist,has developed an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of detecting, counting, grouping and generating healthy hair follicles during hair transplant procedures, an innovation that earned him the Best Innovative Technology award.
Atte Ayodeji
Ayodeji also graduated with a Distinction in his Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science from Birmingham City University on Friday, adding another milestone to an impressive academic year.
Beyond his award-winning hair transplant innovation, the Nigerian researcher developed a system and framework on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) as a professional responsibility in the diagnosis of lung cancer.
His dissertation received a silver award at the PGXPO2026 Winter, further highlighting the impact of his research in applying artificial intelligence to healthcare.
Sunday Dare, special adviser on Media and Public Communication to President Tinubu, celebrated Ayodeji’s achievements in a post on X, recalling how he first met him in 2019 during his National Youth Service.
“In 2019 when I became a Minister of the Republic, I met a young man of medium height, genteel with penetrating eyes: Atte Ayodeji. His words rarely come out and he could easily be passed by unnoticed. But I noticed him especially when my SA Kemi Areola brought him to me asking my approval for him to do his Youth Service in my office. I approved. From then on he was unstoppable. His brilliance shown and he developed skills beyond his frame.”
Highlighting Ayodeji’s recent accomplishments, Dare congratulated him saying, “Congratulations Atte. I am proud of you!”
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