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Mission
TekSeries is a § 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
TekSeries, a New York based Non Profit Corporation, was founded to contribute to reaching and preparing underserved segments of Nigeria’s teeming youth population, for the future of work and innovation.
Recognizing this “all hands on deck need”, our goal is to help confront perennial challenges of youth unemployment, re-skilling and expansion of access to jobs and entrepreneurial opportunity in myriad sectors of the local and virtual economy.
Our core belief remains, that technology is mostly a force for good and should where necessary, be deployed to disrupt business as usual.
Our challenge to the young people we encounter, is to gain and maintain in demand skills for a rewarding career, but to also utilize said skills to create value adding entities, that redress societal, environmental and economic inefficiencies around them.
Method
We have set out to achieve these goals by forming core industry partnerships and adopting a multi-pronged targeted approach to services. This includes free digital skills workshops for various ages and skill levels; Incubator program sponsorships; Annual Solution Prizes and StartUp funding for viable products or services.
Most recently, we have added Job Series, a platform dedicated to helping challenge Nigeria’s youth unemployment menace.
“The number of jobs requiring digital skills in Africa is expected to grow in the coming years. According to the forecast, around 28 million and 17 million jobs in Nigeria and Kenya, respectively, would require digital skills by 2030. Such employment opportunities would mainly be in the services sector.”
Statista.com 2023
“Technology-related roles are the fastest- growing jobs in percentage terms, including Big Data Specialists, Fintech Engineers, AI and Machine Learning Specialists and Software and Application Developers. Green and energy transition roles, including Autonomous and Electric Vehicle Specialists, Environmental Engineers, and Renewable Energy Engineers, also feature within the top fastest-growing roles.”
WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025
“Africa needs digital skills across the economy, not just the tech sector.”
WEF Job Reset Summit 2020
Services
Workshops
Our services are modelled on interactive webinars, live workshops in urban and rural locations, with select local and foreign technology experts and enthusiasts.
These include free introductory workshops in basic digital literacy, functional device use and internet communication; entry level coding for the elementary to secondary school segment, starting with junior building blocks.
Intermediate digital skills for Undergrads, Graduates and Workers on in demand coding series, Web design & Development, Mobile Application Design, Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing.
Upskilling Workshops for Developers, Workers, Practitioners; In continuing education programs, Certifications and Ideation.
Seed Investments
Recognising the ever present funding challenge for startups, we continue to scout for impactful entities to invest in or syndicate funding for. We are resolved to make seed investments in stricly viable solutions and help kick start concepts we believe can evolve into mass appeal enterprises.
Sponsorships & Maker's Prize
We have established a program to sponsor promising, but underserved founders to some of the top business accelerator programs. In addition, TekSeries will be organizing an inaugural annual Maker’s Prize. This prize will reward the best Solution Innovation of the year, voted for on crowd sourced basis. This Prize is expected to be sponsored by a rotation of notable local and foreign corporations on an annual basis.
Job Series
Current data courtesy of Nigeria’s own National Bureau of Statistics, indicates the Youth unemployment rate in Nigeria is at all time high of 42.5%, with under employment at 21.5%. Clearly, this challenge deserves the urgency of now and can only be met by the collective contributions of the public and private sector.
In this regard, we partner with sister organizations to feature employers in need of interns to advanced level tech and related industry workers. The Internships are expected to be a gateway into building potentially long term industry and entrepreneurial careers.
Our Job Series portal will afford employers the ability to post openings for free. Applicants can also create free profiles, post the CVs and Resumes, perform free job searches and attend periodic interview, assessment and CV workshops.
Team
Anthony Ikeata
ed-tech
A Certified Cambridge Assessment instructor, Anthony holds a Masters in Computer Science from IMSU, Owerri. He has been in the EdTech field over a decade and has conducted beginner to advanced level TekSeries digital instruction workshops.
Ogechi Oweziem
talent/hr adviser
Ogechi is an accomplished HR professional with over 6 years of experience in full-cycle recruitment, HR operations, talent acquisition, and employee relations. She has successfully led recruitment initiatives across EMEA, APAC, NAMER, and LATAM, including hiring for AI professionals and managing large-scale freelance talent pools. Passionate about using HR to drive business success, Ogechi partners with Tekseries as their HR Advisor, bringing a blend of strategic insight and hands-on expertise to support organizational growth and innovation. She also holds a Master's by Research in Artificial Intelligence, adding a unique perspective to the intersection of technology and human resources.
Rushabh Shah
Tech Adviser
A Senior Software Engineer with COMCAST USA and RKS IT Services. A gifted developer, Rushab has conducted TekSeries programming workshops and is well versed with all aspects of the software development life cycle.
Chijoke Metu
founder
Metu has spent over twenty years, across the U.K., U.S. and Nigeria, advocating on behalf of businesses and individual consumers. With graduate studies in Corporate, Commercial, IP Law and a Start Up Executive Education, the incentive for starting TekSeries, was to contribute to creating and expanding access to early digital instruction and career preparation tools, for our underserved youth, regardless of socio-economic status or location.
Placid Aguwa
non-executive director
An experienced trial and transactional attorney, Aguwa is Certified in Emerging Economies Entrepreneurship, from the Harvard University and has has spent several decades advising consumers, corporations and government agencies in Nigeria and the United States.
Foster Metu
Country Director Emeritus
A veteran Network Engineer with Brookhouse, Shell and Computer People in the U.K., Foster has overseen TekSeries operations in Nigeria and also serves as the CIO of Scalable Networks Nigeria Ltd., servicing projects in Server redeployment, backup and Exchange server migration.
