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The Nigerian Challenge
Understanding the economic landscape that demands transformative youth development
As one of the world's largest producers of crude oil and with an abundance of gas and mineral resources, Nigeria is Africa's largest economy with GDP of $3.76 BN. The International Monetary Fund predicts that Nigeria could become the ninth largest economy in the world by 2050 if it mobilizes its 200 million populations into a nation of entrepreneurs and consumers.
But Nigeria's population advantage is also its downfall as it struggles to overcome rising unemployment, unstable power supply, poor education and poverty. Nigeria has a range of issues; the government's fiscal deficit is expanding above budget, unemployment is trending upwards (it's currently at 25% of the population), and uncertainty around petrol prices all combine to create an atmosphere of economic instability.
This uncertainty means that the West African nation has seen a steady out-flow of its most promising young talent to Europe, leaving behind a damaging human capital problem. With an entrepreneurial deficit, the country is unable to develop the broad-based economy needed to provide employment, competition, innovation as well as insulation from the global price and demand shocks in its natural resource markets.
Mass unemployment and poverty means that many Nigerians lack the basic amenities of life and are vulnerable to crimes such as human trafficking and modern-day slavery.
The Youth Demographic Challenge
It is widely acknowledged that Nigeria's youth population sits precariously at over 55% of the total population. Why precarious? It is precarious because in the times we live now, where high unemployment rates and misplaced priorities are the norm rather than exception, where impatience and greed seem to have become a virtue rather than flaw, there is much cause for concern · when the sheer number of young unemployed people with limited scope of knowledge and skills are taken into account.
Without a doubt, this country's youth population boasts some of the most original creatives in the world. Given the right tools and environment, Nigerian youths can compete at the highest levels in various industries and exceed expectations.
Nigeria's Youth Crisis in Numbers
Data-driven evidence of the urgent need for systematic youth capacity development
Nigeria's youth population sits precariously at over 55% · a demographic dividend that demands investment in capacity building.
Unemployment is trending upwards · currently at 25% of the population · creating an atmosphere of economic instability.
The TAP Solution
Four Critical Areas of Renaissance
The UNESCO Read and Earn Federation finds it paramount that meaningful enrichment and sustainable programmes should be put in place towards the renaissance of four identified critical areas among the youth:
- Intellectual Capacity Building: Intellectual renaissance is paramount and can be achieved with meaningful and complete enrichment programmes. The illiterates of the 21st century are not just those who cannot read and write · but also those who cannot unlearn the many lies they have been conditioned to believe and to seek out the hidden knowledge they have been conditioned to reject.
- Leadership Capacity Building
- Economic Capacity Building
- Digital Technology Capacity Building
These four critical areas of improvement are entrenched in the ten-year UNESCO TAP Project, launched in Nigeria and in the United Kingdom; delivered digitally. TAP is programmed to run for ten years, influencing a whole generation of young Nigerians.
By providing internationally-recognised bespoke programme content designed by subject matter experts in partnership with the United Kingdom, world external validation and globally transportable certification, plus two international professional memberships with the Association of Business Executives and Institute of Leadership & Management · TAP gives enrollees access to the MyLeadership flagship e-learning tool to continue supporting their professional development in business leadership.
"No one is coming to save us. We owe ourselves the rescue and the salvation."
TAP aims to relaunch the authority of originality in enterprise and to encourage the intersection of fresh ideas · because today's marketplace frustration and hard-to-till entrepreneurial land is tomorrow's street anger and restlessness.
Message from the Director
The UNESCO Read and Earn Federation finds it paramount that meaningful enrichment and sustainable programmes should be put in place towards the renaissance of four identified critical areas among the youth: Intellectual Capacity Building, Leadership Capacity Building, Economic Capacity Building, and Digital Technology Capacity Building.
"Given the right tools and environment, Nigerian youths can compete at the highest levels in various industries and exceed expectations."
These four critical areas of improvement are entrenched in the ten-year TAP Project, launched in Nigeria and in the United Kingdom. Without a doubt, this country's youth population boasts some of the most original creatives in the world.
"No one is coming to save us. We owe ourselves our salvation."
It is our hope that this very timely project will enlighten our youths about the dynamics of international markets, exposing them to globally recognised and proven wealth creation strategies.
"Today's marketplace frustration and hard-to-till entrepreneurial land is tomorrow's street anger and restlessness."
TAP aims to relaunch the authority of originality in enterprise and to encourage the intersection of fresh ideas · because innovation and creativity remain the hallmarks of thriving nations.
Executive Certificate in Reinvention and Capacity Development
Duration: 3 Months (12 Weeks) · Mode: 100% Virtual, Self-Paced with Live Online Seminars and Interactive Workshops
Programme Overview
The Executive Certificate in Reinvention and Capacity Development is a rigorous professional programme designed to equip participants with the intellectual, leadership, digital, and economic capacities required for personal reinvention and organisational transformation. Delivered entirely online, the programme blends academic depth, applied practice, and real-world projects, ensuring participants achieve both intellectual mastery and practical impact.
Programme Structure
Intellectual Capacity and Critical Inquiry
Focus: Building advanced analytical and reflective skills for evidence-based leadership.
- Foundations of intellectual leadership: curiosity, critical thinking, reflective practice
- Research literacy: qualitative and quantitative methods for executives
- Systems thinking: managing complexity and adaptive solutions
- Policy analysis and applied problem-solving frameworks
- Intellectual agility: fostering creativity, innovation, and resilience
Activities: Case study analysis, structured debates, applied research brief
Outcome: Ability to design and defend evidence-based strategies for complex challenges
Leadership and Transformational Governance
Focus: Developing ethical, adaptive, and strategic leadership for reinvention.
- Comparative leadership models: transformational, servant, adaptive, distributed
- Ethics and integrity in governance and decision-making
- Strategic influence: negotiation, diplomacy, stakeholder engagement
- Leading organisational change: frameworks for reinvention and transformation
- Crisis leadership: simulations of decision-making under pressure
Activities: Leadership diagnostics, stakeholder mapping, crisis simulation
Outcome: Ability to lead with integrity, mobilise stakeholders, and drive transformation
Digital Competence and Innovation
Focus: Equipping leaders with digital fluency and innovation strategies.
- Digital literacy: mastering essential platforms and tools
- Emerging technologies: AI, blockchain, big data, and strategic applications
- Digital transformation frameworks: aligning technology with organisational goals
- Cybersecurity awareness and digital ethics
- Innovation labs: design thinking, prototyping, and digital solution development
Activities: Digital transformation blueprint, prototype development, peer review
Outcome: Ability to design and implement digital strategies that drive innovation
Economic Capacity and Sustainable Development
Focus: Strengthening economic reasoning, entrepreneurial thinking, and sustainability.
- Principles of economic resilience and financial strategy
- Entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems in emerging markets
- Global economic trends and local implications
- Sustainable development frameworks: integrating SDGs into organisational strategy
- Impact measurement: tools for assessing social and economic outcomes
Activities: Business model canvas, economic resilience plan, sustainability proposal
Outcome: Ability to apply economic analysis to strategic decisions and design initiatives that balance profitability with social impact
Reinvention Strategy
Focus: Integrating all modules into a practical transformation plan.
- Participants design a comprehensive reinvention strategy for themselves, their organisation, or their community
- Includes literature review, theoretical grounding, implementation roadmap, risk analysis, and measurable outcomes
- Culminates in a virtual symposium where participants present and defend their projects
Outcome: Demonstrates mastery of intellectual, leadership, digital, and economic competencies in a real-world context
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the programme, participants will:
- Demonstrate advanced intellectual inquiry and critical reasoning
- Lead with integrity, adaptability, and transformational vision
- Harness digital innovation for organisational and societal impact
- Apply economic principles to build resilient and sustainable systems
- Reinvent personal and professional pathways for relevance in the digital economy
Target Audience
This programme is designed for a diverse group of learners and professionals committed to reinvention and capacity development:
Certification
Graduates will be awarded the Executive Certificate in Reinvention and Capacity Development. This certificate reflects rigorous executive education standards and documents learning outcomes, contact hours, and capstone achievement.
Why This Matters to You
Measurable transformation across intellectual, leadership, economic, digital, and elite leadership competencies
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TAP Programme Categories
Comprehensive pathways serving Nigerian youth from foundational skills to elite leadership
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Unskilled Youths
E1 (Endorse) · E2 (External) · Foundational capacity development
Skilled Youths
E1 (Endorse) · E2 (External) · Advanced competency enhancement
Graduates
Labour market readiness for university and polytechnic graduates
TAP Kids Programme
Early-stage intellectual and creative development
TAP Teens Programme
Skilled and Caregiver Training (SCT) · Adolescent capacity building
TAP Private Loan Scheme
Financial instruments reducing entrepreneurial capital barriers
Small Scale Entrepreneurs
Business Stay Up · Advisory and market linkage support
Medium Scale Entrepreneurs
Growth-stage acceleration and regional expansion support
TAP Summer Camp
Intensive immersion for skills, leadership and cultural exchange
TAP (Nigerian) Diaspora
Channelling diaspora expertise and capital for development
TAP Export
Trade facilitation and international market penetration
TAP Partnership (PIG)
Private Sectors, Individuals and Government Institutes collaboration
UN SDG · African Union Agenda 2063
TAP aligns with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 4 (Quality Education) and 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), and advances the African Union Agenda 2063
Education
Economic Growth
Innovation
Inequalities
Justice
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TAP as Africa's Capacity Blueprint
Agenda 2063 calls on every African nation to transform its human capital into the engine of continental prosperity. NEPAD_EY · the continent's New Partnership Development for Education and Youths · identifies skills development as the foundational pillar for sustainable growth. TAP answers both calls with a structured ten-year programme that turns these frameworks' aspirations into tangible skills, measurable outcomes, and empowered citizens.
Through alignment with NEPAD_EY and Agenda 2063, TAP positions Nigeria · and by extension the continent · as a pragmatic, results-driven leader in Africa's vision of growth powered by its people. Every skill built, every leader developed, every entrepreneur launched through TAP is a direct contribution to the NEPAD_EY mandate of African-owned, African-led development.
THE AUGUST PROJECT
"Developing Local Talent for Global Success"
[email protected]Launched Nigeria · United Kingdom · August 15, 2017
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