ODU’A Investment Foundation (OIF), the charity arm of Odu’a Investment Company Limited (OICL), is set to establish training schools for coding and programming languages across 137 local councils in South-West.

The project, directed by Prof. Seun Kolade of Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, named Digital Education for Innovation and Economic Development (DEFINED), was inaugurated on October 27, 2023 at Lagos Airport Hotel with the aim of training students across the six states in the South-West zone.

The first endeavour under the DEFINED Project, according to one of the OIF project officers, Adeyinka Babalola, is the Byte Busters after school coding club, which has been launched in the six South-West states.

In Oyo State, the Byte Busters Coding Club, was launched at Government College Ibadan, enrolling 106 students, who had undergone a two-week intensive hands-on summer training in writing coding and programming languages.

In her address, the Acting Executive Secretary, Odu’a Investment Foundation, Mrs Abiola Ajayi, noted that the DEFINED Project was designed to contribute to the development of digital skills among Yoruba youths through the creation of after school coding clubs, among other interventions.