A six-year-old Nigerian student identified as Master Damilare Akano has emerged Africa’s youngest Microsoft Specialist in the Certiport international certification examination. Akano alongside 200 other students participated in a month-long summer camp tagged:
‘Nextgen IT Experts’ organised by a Learning Systems Institute, New Horizons in Lagos, recently.
The teenagers were trained in various Information and Communication Technology (ICT), courses like Microsoft, Multimedia, Robotics Engineering, Drone Technology, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Coding, among others.
Akano came top in the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2016 examinations with a score of 871 out of 1000 points.
He was followed by a 10-year-old Masters Toluwalese Kwaku and eight-year-old Master Kolawole Akano, who scored 825 and 800 respectively.
Three of them are pupils of Scholar Crest International, Omole, Lagos.
According to the Managing Director (MD) of New Horizons, Mr Tim Akano, the achievement of the six-year-old Damilare as Africa’s 2019 youngest Microsoft Certified Office Specialist did not come as a surprise but bears testimony to excellence which New Horizons is known.
He further added that in the last 14 years, the company has strived to solve one of the major problems confronting corporate Nigeria like shortage of ICT professionals.
The MD was happy to announce that over 75 per cent of those who work in ICT departments of corporate Nigeria presently have undertaken one training or the other at New Horizons’ training either in the institute’s partnering universities or training centres across the country.
