TekSeries is a 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Non-Profit Corporation
Expanding Opportunity, Empowering Our Future
One youth’s career at a time.
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TekSeries is a 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Non-Profit Corporation
Equipping underserved
youth with Digital, AI, and
Creative Economy Skills
Free digital skills workshops for various ages and skill levels.
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Our impact
Get Involved, Help Grow Our Impact
312+
Digital Literacy/AI Workshops
675+
Youths Trained
25+
IT/Job Seminars
100’s
Curated Jobs Aggregated Daily
Who We Are
Mission
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.
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Help Grow Our Impact
Method
We have set out to achieve these goals by forming core industry partnerships and adopting a multi-pronged and targeted approach to services. This includes free digital skills workshops for various ages and skill levels; Incubator program sponsorships; Annual Solution Prizes and Micro Seed funding for viable products or services.
Our most recent addition, the Job Series platform, is dedicated to curating, highlighting and aggregating city and regional job opportunities, to help challenge Nigeria’s youth unemployment menace.
The challenge
33.3%
headline youth unemployment
53.4% combined labor distress
62% of employers struggle to hire
According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and international labor assessments, Nigeria’s youth population (ages 15–34) faces acute labor market dysfunction: headline youth unemployment stands at 33.3% (representing over 21 million young adults), while underemployment drives the combined labor distress rate to 53.4%. Furthermore, 62% of Nigerian employers report significant difficulty finding entry-level talent equipped with modern technical and digital skills.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria.
The opportunity
142%+
surge in demand for specialized tech roles
$1,000–$4,000 USD monthly for remote & freelance talent
Driven by rising demand for global tech talent and Africa’s emerging creator economy, digital upskilling has become the single fastest lever for financial mobility in West Africa. Demand for specialized technical roles—such as Data Analytics and Cybersecurity—has surged by over 142%, with qualified, entry-level digital freelancers and qualified remote workers in Nigeria able to earn monthly incomes ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 USD.
Sources: Int’l Finance Corp. & National Labor Reports.
Our AI edge
AI-ready
graduates for automated hiring
ATS-optimized CVs
Portfolio customization
Global remote job hunting
As Artificial Intelligence fundamentally alters candidate screening and recruitment, TekSeries equips graduates with practical AI competencies. Through dedicated workshops such as ‘Smart Job Search using AI’, participants learn to leverage AI tools for ATS-optimized CV development, portfolio customization, and global remote job hunting, ensuring early-career job seekers can effectively compete in automated global talent markets.
What We Do
Pillar I
Digital Skills & Youth Capacity Development
Elementary & Secondary Track
Early-stage digital instruction, building blocks, and entry-level coding (Scratch, basic logic), PictoBlox AI, Robotics & Maker Workshops; Graphic Design.
Undergraduate & Graduate Track
In-demand functional tracks, including Web & Mobile Development, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, and Artificial Intelligence Integration.
Workforce Upskilling
Career Clinics, CV revamping, and AI-powered career readiness workshops, like the 2026 Smart Job Search using AI Webinar and the AI Impact on Job Readiness & Search for New Graduates Webinar.
Case Study · Elementary & Secondary Track
The Rural Jr. Boot Camp, in Eziama, is a case study in perseverance to progressive impact. Comprised of 8-16 year olds, some of whom had never turned on a computer when they first started the after school program. 12-18 months from finding the power button on a laptop, most of the kids now code and design games using Scratch & PictoBlox AI programming, build an entire Robot Car and design Event Cards and Flyers. This reaffirms what we all know, that talent knows no boundaries and is the reason, we remain even more committed to improving and expanding our program.
Pillar II
Job Series Portal
Shares select job openings from third party sources, who retain full rights and credits to their job listings.
33.3%
headline youth unemployment
53.4%
combined labor distress
142%+
surge in demand for specialized tech roles
The Challenge
Nigeria faces severe youth employment challenges, with headline youth unemployment at 33.3% and underemployment driving the combined labor distress rate to 53.4%. Demand for specialized technical roles has surged by over 142%, yet a structural gap exists between acquiring basic certificates and securing gainful employment or seed support.
Bridge to Employment
A free, curated portal, JobSeries highlights City and regional job opportunities, to match job-ready youth with employers seeking interns, entry-level, and mid-level tech talent. Applicants can upload their CVs and Resumes, perform free job searches and attend periodic interview assessments, Career Clinics and Workshops.
Employer Partner Network
Partnering with corporate entities and startups to create internship pathways that serve as gateways to long-term tech and new economy careers.
Pillar III
Maker’s Prize & Micro Seed Funding
Who can apply
TekSeries can make independent awards to deserving students, student teams and start ups, who are also eligible to apply by December 1, by going to TekSeries.com.
When winners are announced
Winners are announced beginning the first quarter of the new year.
What makers build
Makers must build community-driven solutions, products or services.
What winners receive
Pre and post MVP support, in the form of micro seed funds, Accelerator program sponsorship, for legal & start up guidance.
We are resolved to support strictly viable solutions and help kick start concepts we believe can evolve into mass appeal enterprises.
Team
Allwell Agwu-Okoro
Lead Tech Adviser
Allwell is the CEO of Beekomm Technologies Limited and a Senior Software & Cloud Engineer specialising in AI engineering: designing, building and integrating AI into reliable, production-ready software. With hands-on experience across backend systems and cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP, Allwell has led full-stack and Rust-based platform development across international teams. Allwell is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, an AWS Certified AI Practitioner (Early Adopter) and a Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), and builds and maintains the TekSeries web platforms.
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, Rushabh has conducted TekSeries programming workshops and is well versed with all aspects of the software development life cycle.
Chijioke 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 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.
