The ongoing Spires Sports Meet-tech program has been praised by participants as a transformative experience.
The initiative designed to empower young people beyond sports by creating a window to acquire relevant tech skills is being held at the Digital Bridge Institute in Oshodi, Lagos.
Among the participants are footballers, coaches, referees, school students, and others from various works of life.
One of the participants, coach of Chekas United Football Club Richard Nwosu, said the tech program has opened his eyes to greater opportunities beyond football.
In his words: ” I am so glad to be part of this training program, all we have been taught has open my eyes to opportunities in the tech world and this i hope to leverage going forward”.
An undergraduate Tolulope Francisca, who is also attending the training, said she has been greatly impacted by the program and hopes to be considered as one of those to get the free laptops.
” This is a very important opportunity and I have embarrassed it with every sense of seriousness, technology control’s today’s world and knowledge like Coding, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning amongst others are in high demand all over the world ” she added.
Spires and IHS will give out fifty (50) computers to selected participants to aid their development in tech education.
The program started on Monday, 2nd November, and will come to a close on Friday the 6th, 2026.
