Nigeria: W.Tec Academy Moves to Bridge Gender Gap With Stem Skills

In celebration of the 2025 International Girls in ICT Day, the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) hosted a technology event at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, where it stressed the need to bridge gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

The event brought together over 200 secondary school girls from 10 schools on the Lagos Mainland, who are members of the W.TEC Academy, an after-school tech club aimed at equipping girls with…