FG honours ENGAUSA tech hub with award of excellence

The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has honoured a famous Nigerian technology training firm Engausa Tech Hub with an award of excellence as the “best trainer” among partners of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in the country.

The ministry announced this on Wednesday in a post shared on its official Facebook handle, adding that the award was pronounced at the Digital Nigeria conference of 2022.

The firm has established a name in the area of training youths in modern digital skills, primarily in Hausa and English and continues to record remarkable successes.

The founder and chairman of the tech hub, Engineer Mustapha Habu Ringim, said the firm recently trained over 2,000 young people in different skills, including digital skills, entrepreneurship, guidance and many more.

Ringim added that the graduates trained in various science and technology skills included university lecturers, students, and Almajiri, who never attended any formal school.

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SOLACEBASE reports that Mustapha is a civil society activist popular on social media , Radio and television stations across the northern part of Nigeria. He is both an innovator and a motivational speaker.

The Engausa Global Technology Hub believes that knowledge can best be taught in a mother tongue (Hausa) to break the barriers impeded by the English language.

This was contained in a statement made available to journalists recently by Engineer Mustapha Ringim. He said the technology hub had also launched a library to enhance reading among youths.

He said the effort was to enhance lifetime reading culture among youths, adding that the Maisuga Ringim Library has provided both hard and soft copies of reading materials for the apprentice of the technology hub.

With its motto, ‘breaking barriers and bridging gaps’, the firm aims to entrench inclusive technical skills acquisition and entrepreneurial skills among the teaming youths against all language barriers and technical gaps bedevilling human capital development at the grassroots.

Engausa was founded in 2019 and registered in 2020 by Engineer Mustapha Habu Ringim.