Tech expert Agba Akin speaks on future of IT in Nigeria

Nigerian tech expert, software engineer, and social media influencer, Akinola Abdulakeem Akinade, popularly known as Àgbà Akin said that the future of IT in Nigeria is not bleak.

Speaking in an interview on Wednesday, Akin disclosed that even though Information Technology is underdeveloped in Nigeria, the industry is currently experiencing a deserved revolution.

Akinola, who is famous for teaching programming using Twitter thread, recently organized scholarship exams this week to carry out a general assessment of people following his tech tutoring and mentorship.

“I think everyone deserves equal opportunity and fair chance to pursuing their dreams regardless of their pocket and Nigeria IT future needs more experts to constantly build a community of people with great resources to expand the future possibilities”.

According to the CEO of aptLearn, the future of IT in Nigeria is promising with things that are happening in the tech spaces.

In his words, “I think IT, for now, is still underdeveloped, but there’s been some kind of revolutions happening in the tech spaces with big startups bagging seed and series funding and taking their products to the next level both local and on the global stage.

“If any other thing is not advancing and progressive in the country at the moment, I am sure tech is moving,” he added.

Meanwhile, he said that his mission is to establish equal opportunities and a leveled playing field for small-scale businesses to thrive.

Furthermore, Akin said there is a lot to do in terms of bridging the technology divides in Nigeria, including orientation and a friendly working environment.

“The technology divides in Nigeria is staggering, I get a lot of unnecessary abuse and hate for doing what I’m doing, teaching people how to code for free means we will be inducting a new generation of talents into the tech space in a few months.

“My thought is some already existing people in the community are feeling threatened about job competition and afraid of being overtaken by the newbies, but another developer’s success does and can never impact your success, the tech space is big enough for everyone “Danny Thompson, 2021”.

“I feel through proper dialogue, unlearning, relearning, and re-education, we can make the people who are little known about the purpose of bridging the gap and divides understand that the tech community is big enough for everyone to thrive in their respective dealings,” he added.

Aside from being the founder at aptLearn, Àgbà Akin is the lead engineer at “Swiftspeed App creator(swiftspeedappcreator.com), a cross-platform and open-source mobile app maker developed and managed by his company “Ssu-Technology Limited”.

The popular software has powered over 500,000 apps worldwide, which help individuals and agencies develop a mobile app without programming knowledge.

They also host I.T classes taught by experts in each field of all courses [Programming, Android, IOS, Robotics, and other evolving technological languages], programming tutorials, and web application development.