{"id":194881,"date":"2025-03-29T17:06:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-48-pwds-graduate-with-digital-skills-from-nigerian-institute\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:06:24","slug":"nigeria-48-pwds-graduate-with-digital-skills-from-nigerian-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-48-pwds-graduate-with-digital-skills-from-nigerian-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 48 PWDs Graduate With Digital Skills From Nigerian Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mr Daser acknowledged the barriers, stigma, and limited access to training opportunities that often hinder PWDs from fully participating in the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">An affiliate of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ncc.gov.ng\/node\/324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigerian Communications Commission<\/a><\/strong> (NCC), the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) has graduated 48 Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) under the IT Bridge Academy initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The graduates, 24 from the Lagos campus and 24 from the Kano campus, completed the nine-month training&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503280508.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Daser acknowledged the barriers, stigma, and limited access to training opportunities that often hinder PWDs from fully participating in the digital economy. An affiliate of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) has graduated 48 Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) under the IT Bridge Academy initiative. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9633,24390,13642,257,4687,393,482,20470,6781,254],"class_list":["post-194881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-digital","tag-graduate","tag-institute","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-pwds","tag-skills","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}