The AI skills boom is real. The market for those skills is not

    Olufemi Kazeem Oluoje | Opinion | Jun 09, 2026    
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Every week, another accelerator announces a new cohort. Another NGO publishes a report on the digital skills gap. Another multinational hosts a bootcamp in Lagos or Abuja, training three hundred young Nigerians to "leverage AI for economic transformation." The photographs are always the same: bright faces, laptops open, a facilitator gesturing at a slide deck bearing the logo of a Silicon Valley sponsor. Everyone claps. Everyone posts. Everyone moves on.

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