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The Youth Empowerment & ICT Foundation presents the one day conference titled “Social Media Awareness: the Good, the Bad & the Opportunities“. This programme is aimed at creating awareness among the youths on the benefits as well as the negative effects of social media usage.The conference will feature inspiring speakers like Linda Ikeji, Lanre Aina of Google Nigeria, Chude Jideonwo, Kaptain of GidiTraffic among others.

James Hope College - Excellence & Empowerment

With over 10 years invested in the youth and counting, YEIF embarked on a pursuit to tackle a major issue facing Nigeria, education. We realised that access to quality education is indeed a primary cause of unemployment and its proceeding effects such as crime. Research studies in inequality, poverty and development pertaining to Nigeria as a case study has shown that a major cause of unemployment is that our graduate youth are actually unemployable because they lack the necessary skills...

NGIEP (Next Generation of ICT Entrepreneurs Program)

500 youths were trained by professionals on developing software mobile application for five days in 2012. This training program offered attendees practical, technical and entrepreneurship skills necessary for jobs and job creation in the emerging ICT driven market. Attendees were grouped in teams of five individuals per group. A software application business hackathon was organised and five ideas were selected for funding at the end of the five-day training.

Youth Empowerment and ICT Foundation holds Social Media Awareness conference

Youth Empowerment and ICT Foundation held a conference on “Social Media Awareness: the Good, the Bad and the Opportunities.”The event took place at the Civic Center on the 3rd of May, and was ‘’coordinated’’ (as Jim Ovia put it) by Basket Mouth.Key speakers at the event included:

Why Give: Youths need to be empowered

How can civil society and business help empower young Nigerians? Jim Ovia, founder of Zenith Bank and Visafone, and founder of the ICT Foundation for Youth Empowerment, shares how he leverages his business experience in the field of philanthropy. For Ovia, inspiring and encouraging youth is the best way to build a stronger society. In this video, Ovia shares why investment in education and youth opportunity will pay large dividends for Nigeria.

Jim Ovia Foundation Awards N50 Million Grant to ICT Trainees

The Jim Ovia Foundation has during a week long ICT youth empowerment programme it organised in partnership with Google, IBM, Visafone, Microsoft and TLC Solutions announced a grant to the tune of N50 million for 10 most successful young Nigerians after the training held in Lagos last week.More than 350 young people who are students of tertiary institutions of learning and young graduates participated in the programme.

Jim Ovia ICT Foundation to sponsor NCS scholarship programme

Jim Ovia, chairman and founder of Zenith Bank Plc, declared at Nigeria Information Technology Award (NITMA) 2015 that Jim Ovia ICT Foundation will henceforth sponsor the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) scholarship programmes for the members.NCS has previously instituted the scholarship programme to assist members pursue critical research programmes for the betterment of the industry.

Jim Ovia Foundation trains 350 Nigerians in ICT

Jim Ovia Foundation trains 350 Nigerians in ICT.Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adqvZHbp9jE

Jim Ovia Foundation donates to schools, students

Youth Empowerment and ICT Foundation, an initiative of Jim Ovia Foundation recently in Lagos donated over 500 computers to not fewer than 300 schools in Nigeria and over 150 laptops with one year free internet access to students. Also, more than 1000 Blackberry and Android smartphones were given to students that pre-registered online for the event.