Aiki Nigeria

Aiki is an employ-ability portal which bridges the gap for job seekers, entrepreneurs, artisans and school leavers by providing network of accessible opportunities from various businesses, companies and other organizations. Our aim is to reduce unemployment in Nigeria, particularly among young Nigerian's between the ages of 15 to 35-year.

Aiki.ng is a web based job and training resource centre that aims to provide a guide for young Africans in the area of career planning, skill acquisition, entrepreneurship development, Job sourcing and small business sustainability. The objective is to create a better informed and empowered citizenry across Africa; particularly among the youth people.

In addition aiki.ng is designed to be a platform where young people can build networks and connect for development at a continental level. It is also an employ-ability portal which seeks to bridge the gap for job seekers, entrepreneurs, artisans and school leavers by providing network of accessible opportunities from various openings.

Employ-ability is a set of skills, knowledge and personal attributes that make an individual more likely to secure and be successful in their chosen occupation(s) while benefiting the workforce, the community and the economy of a Nation.

Increasingly, employers are demanding skills from graduates which are outside the subject area of their course of study in Higher Education. Indeed, some employers have placed less importance on graduates’ actual degree discipline in favour of the more generic skills which they have acquired: Employers generally see a graduate’s achievements related to the subject discipline as necessary but not sufficient for them to be recruited. In some employment contexts the actual subject discipline may be relatively unimportant. Achievements outside the boundaries of the discipline (such as the possession of so-called ‘soft skills’) are generally considered to be important in the recruitment of graduates.

Significantly, extra curricular activities such as work experience, volunteering and involvement in clubs and societies are seen as having equal importance in this context as the knowledge and experience acquired through academic stud, this is the gap AIki.ng is currently bridging.   

The distressing rise of the unemployment rate in Nigeria which has resulted to the high percentage of unemployment from 21.1 per cent to 23.9 per cent, particularly among young Nigeria's from 15 to 35-year olds that constitute 60 per cent of Nigeria's population. Apart from unemployment, the low education outcomes with considerable dropout rate of between 12 per cent 15 per cent despite Universal Basic Education (UBEC) is also alarming. Therefore, Aiki  an employability portal bridge the gap for job seekers, entrepreneurs, artisans and school leavers by providing network of accessible opportunities through the platforms 

With the help of Aiki.ng, we will be able to further bridge the gap for job seekers, entrepreneurs, artisans, and school leavers by providing network of accessible opportunities from various businesses, companies and organizations.

Currently, we have over 800 skill development and diploma certified courses on the portal which ranges from Basic Science, Business Skills, Coding Courses, Digital Literacy, English Language skills, Entrepreneurial Skills, General Diplomas but to mention a few. We have had several testimonials from young people who have taken courses on the site and are gainfully employed today but also employing others, hereby increasing the employment rate.

The solution will be deployed by harnessing the power of social media, running ads on all media platforms, activation on campuses and organizing town hall meetings where demonstrations will be made and youths who do not have access to the internet will be encouraged to take on the spot courses.

Track sign ups with google analytics and alexa ranking. - 100,000 people to sign up on the portal

Track course completion with site tracker - 50,000 to start and complete a course on the portal

Track testimonials on social media and live feedback forms on the site. - Testimonials from registered participants on their career progress after completing a course on the site

Our solution is quiet unique from others in our field because we have the largest learning and robust portal in Nigeria. Also, there are access to other course-ware from other partners on our portal; i.e those who register on our site are not just restricted to courses provided by us, they can also access several other courses they find interesting from other training  providers such as Allison, Udemy and others.

The whole aim of our solution is to develop the human capacity of young people in Nigeria. We are providing a platform where young people can build networks and connect for development at a continental level. 

From the inception of the project, our focus has been on people and how they get the required skills that makes them more employable and skillful in their area of interest.

Our solution has been deployed on the world wide web. The url link is www.aiki.ng.

The portal is very much accessible and free to the communities we are target. 

we are also using various social media platforms to propagate our solutions and partner with several tertiary institutions across the country to run activation on their campuses.

Our plan is to work with partners who are interested in the project to push the project to our target audience. Also we are on the look out for interested funders or sponsors who can co-fund the project along side our current funder. 

Currently, some of the factors limiting the ability of our solution to succeed are: 

1. Financial constraint.

2. No time limit for course completion 

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The rationale behind Aiki.ng applying to Solve borders largely on our need to create a platform where job seekers or knowledge seekers as a whole can log on to, access information , gain skills they might lack to help increase their productivity, and improve their employability.

At Solve, the focus lies majorly on creating an ecosystem where knowledge is the currency, knowledge acquired through a community of subject matter experts who are willing to help train, educate and mentor people.

Microsoft 

Allison

Udemy

Coursera