The tenth Aptech Centre for computer education was recently opened in Lagos by Raptors West Africa Limited as part of activities of taking computer education to more communities across Nigeria.
The Chief Operating Officer, Raptors West Africa Limited, Sajan Rohan Suvarna, whose company is the largest franchise for Aptech Computer Education in Nigeria, said that his organization has set up 10 centres in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja, from the first centre that was opened in year 2000 at Maryland, Lagos.
According to him, Aptech is a company headquartered in India offering computer business, information technology training in over 35 years with Raptors West Africa Limited, a franchisee for Aptech.
“While Aptech has different franchises in Nigeria other than ours, we are the largest and we are the only franchise to have the Aptech Learning License, which is the umbrella license comprising, Aptech Computer Education, Aptech Retail and Aptech Hospitality. So, this year onwards, with the new license, we will be offering all the three trainings.
“A lot of our students want to have cross functional skills and Aptech learning fulfils that requirement. We want to train people to have the knowledge and skills to give the best customer service in retail business.
“Also, hospitality focuses on upskilling and train for the hotels and resorts industry. It is an immense strength to have cross functional skills in providing IT solutions.”
Suvarna further said its newest centre at Lekki- Chevron was established to meet the organisation’s goal of bringing computing education opportunities close to the youth.
“Our flagship programme is the ADSE programme, which is a route to a UK degree. It costs approximately 15,000 pounds per year to study in the UK (45,000 pounds for 3 years). With ADSE, you study two years in our Nigerian centres and then through credit transfer move to Middlesex UK and study for just one additional year to earn your degree in software engineering thereby saving substantial amount of naira and forex.
“We update our curriculum every year. So, today we even teach artificial intelligence, we teach machine learning, which no other computer training institute has. We provide a second-to-none cutting edge computer technology training to Nigerians, who have ambition to pursue both diploma and degree certificates.”
Speaking on the importance of the sector, he noted that the IT sector is the fastest growing and highest paying sector at present. “That is why the demand on IT education is that high today. I would say Nigerians are one of the best in coding and programming right now with inherent talent and aptitude. With the right skills, they can bring down unemployment rates drastically.
“Our course curriculum is totally updated according to the latest market needs, which helps our students get jobs easily. Irrespective of your plans of working abroad or in Nigeria, the chance of landing a higher paying job is higher with IT skills.”
