Gurudemy, a leading Lagos-based skill academy creating the next generation of Nigerian entrepreneurs with tech skills has signed an agreement with sterling Bank PLC one of Nigeria’s leading commercial banks to enable youth and young graduates acquire employable skills.

In line with Our mission to create problem-solving entrepreneurs for the world through innovative power of digital skills, Sterling Bank Plc has reached an agreement with Gurudemy to bridge the financial burden in assisting youth and young graduates who are eager to benefit from the digital world by learning employable skills but are unable to do so due to financial constraints.

This collaboration means that students can now pay little by little while they learn, with the intention of paying up during or after learning.

At Gurudemy, we firmly believe that traditional education is not enough to shape the world in this competitive era. Accessing an effective and pertinent kind of skills should be the objective to promote the development of our population. Because of this, we advise youth and students to acquire digital and business skills in order to occupy the front lines in the modern world. Modern inventions and lives are shaped by the digital environment.

As part of the agreement by Sterling Bank PLC to assist passionate students who are unable to afford the fee of studying digital skills with Gurudemy at the present but want to acquire such skills, Sterling Bank and Gurudemy have merged their collaboration agreements to provide loans to students up to N5,000,000 so they can proceed to acquire their digital skills and also purchase the equipment they need to advance their skills, Sterling Bank Plc has devised the best strategy to address this issue.

Amazingly, prospective students don’t have to be a sterling Bank user before applying for the loan.

However, Students/Parents/Guardians are to pay back loan within the space of one Year.
Sterling Bank’s Divisional Head, Health and Education, Obinna Ukachukwu, commented, “Sterling Bank is positively impacting and growing the education sector in Nigeria and has developed Edubanc, a digital banking platform that addresses the needs and challenges of tuition fee payments by making Edpay, an education loan product, available to students.

A better chance of economic development is provided by effective and relevant skills, says Adesola Salami, who believes that this partnership is a plan to expedite our aim of changing the lives of Nigerian youths.

While we continue to operate in accordance with our goal and vision statement, we were able to empower over 200 youth from our academy last year who are now applying their knowledge to solve societal issues. Next year, we plan to produce 500 more youth who will be problem solvers in the society.

It’s a call for intending youth who would want to navigate into tech.