Samsung Electronics West Africa, in partnership with the Eko Project, a World Bank assisted initiative aimed at improving the quality of public secondary education, has launched the third Samsung Electronics Engineering Academy in Lagos as part of its goal to develop 10,000 electronics engineers across Africa by 2015.

The Academy, located within the Agidimgbi Technical College, Ikeja, was opened by the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN in company of commissioners of education, science and technology and other senior officials of the State including Samsung system leadership and partners in Nigeria.

During the commissioning, Governor Babatunde Fashola said there is an urgent need to develop technical skills in students, noting that existing technicians are ill- equipped to repair new appliances because they lack access to modern technology. According to him, “Upcoming technicians must be exposed to cutting edge technology if they are to remain competitive. The ability to repair the latest technology is key to wealth creation for technicians”.

Governor Fashola commended Samsung for partnering with the Lagos State Government on the Academy, stressing that the college is not only a knowledge hub but will also open up job opportunities for the people of Lagos, which is in line with his administration’s drive to create jobs, especially for young citizens.

Speaking at the event, the Managing Director, Samsung Electronics West Africa, Nicholas Shin said, “Our aim is to promote co-operation, innovation, wealth creation and to facilitate thought leadership in the communities in which we operate in response to their real needs and conditions”. 

"The Samsung Engineering Academy programme is our flagship CSR initiative undertaken in response of the need to develop a skilled workforce of technicians who will become service experts empowered to create wealth. Samsung, as a quality service-oriented company, aims to link CSR activities with our business goal of sustaining our level of innovation. This can only be achieved if we invest in quality education to empower the youth”, he adds.

The Samsung Electronics Engineering Academy, equipped with the latest electronics, is aimed at addressing the dearth of technical and engineering skills in Nigeria by providing hands-on, vocational skills training for secondary school students. Students will go through a year’s program in engineering skills, aligned to their technical school’s curriculum. 

The Academy will initially admit 60 students. Upon completion of the programme, graduating students are automatically eligible for an internship at Samsung's channel partners. Outstanding performers will have the opportunity to work as independent service technicians or employees in the company’s retail channel outlets. They also stand a chance of being selected to participate in a year-long leadership opportunity at Samsung Electronics’ headquarters in South Korea as part of the 100 African Young Leaders program.

Samsung started the first phase of academies in South Africa in March 2011. The South African Academy officially ended its pilot phase when the first class of students graduated in January, 2012. In February, a second Academy was launched in Kenya. 

Other examples of Samsung Africa’s education initiatives include the world-first Solar Powered Internet School model designed to address the issue of rural connectivity, and the Samsung E-learning Centres aimed at enhancing learning and teaching through the use of modern technology.

Along with the Samsung Electronics Engineering Academies, these programs are part of the company’s global ‘Hope for Children’ initiative, which places a strategic focus on bringing attention to the worldwide need for childhood education and healthcare in an effort to improve communities worldwide.

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Samsung has three Academies in Lagos.
Samsung has one in Ekiti.
Samsung to open one in Ogun.

Thank you Samsung Electronics for these initiatives and collaborations. For the trust you have in us, we guarantee your continuos patronage.

Ayekotoo: Samsung has three Academies in Lagos.
Samsung has one in Ekiti.
Samsung to open one in Ogun.

Thank you Samsung Electronics for these initiatives and collaborations. For the trust you have in us, we guarantee your continuos patronage.

We set the pace.

Reminds me of how Africa was colonized. Gradually it started like the whites were interested in developing our continent but before our very own eyes we were molested and taken as slaves and our resources stolen to develop their economy.
All hail samsung for bringing another of their Academy to lagos.

Welcome development.

Now i am believ that, trully givers never lack as takers always have.. Samsung should please continue to give us.

Thank God for this.

Not like facebook nursery and primary school in some places.

Tolexander: Thank God for this.

Not like facebook nursery and primary school in some places.

2gobread

Tolexander: Thank God for this.

Not like facebook nursery and primary school in some places.

lol

Who will give us constant power supply so that more of such development will spread across the country?

Any one for other parts of Nigeri? Keep the good work samsung.

The idea, the vision, the belief is that we can only develop if we develop the technical and practical skills that are required for us to innovate, to industrialise, to create employment for our people.

That's why we have the skills acquisition centres, the automobile services centres, the modern farms, the technical academies, etc.

Osun•Ife:



We set the pace.

Are u a samsung product?

Diz y l lyk samsung products especially Android phones. God bless you samsung.

And someone will now tell me not to buy samsung? Haba, these guys are really trying!
As for Nokia, Blackberry & Apple, dem just dey suck my people money in a habatical manner!!!

It's not wealth! Not a new coalition! It thinks(government)! [ORANGE] - NL(Dutch), the OBAS are not seeing you properly?

Died @france2uk alliance - along time ago! We said don't do anything and then we cannot 'you'! Go there! But do you see DC in paris?

Now you know all things! You are all knowing!

We saw 'you' seeing 'you' do it!

Ghana want u 2 'try me'

samsung iz cool
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Haters are hating while Lagos is moving.

Tribalists will never accept that Fashola is the best thing to ever happen to Nigeria.

Instead of Nigerians being jealous of Lagos, other nations could be jealous of Nigeria. But they won't listen.

Kairoseki77: Haters are hating while Lagos is moving.

Tribalists will never accept that Fashola is the best thing to ever happen to Nigeria.

Instead of Nigerians being jealous of Lagos, other nations could be jealous of Nigeria. But they won't listen.

ok.. fashola owns samsung?

train ur people so they can fix their phones, then send in more phones to expand their market grip,
sounds more like a marketing strategy to me, wot is the thank you samsung for?
The good thing is that some Nigerian youths may acquire maintenance competence cert which will broaden their employment horizon.

Well, sounds fair but then what if samsung doesnt dominate d market say in two yrs time cos i knew not samsung 5yrs ago?
Is dere any guarantee dat a samsung competent engr can fix other brands? If so den its a good deal if not, then i will rather enroll for a general tech cert dan limiting myself with only samsung.

hiuser: It's not wealth! Not a new coalition! It thinks! [ORANGE] - NL(Dutch).

Died @france2uk alliance - along time ago! We said don't do anything and then we cannot 'you'! Go there! But do you see DC in paris?

Now you know all things! You are all knowing!

We saw 'you' seeing 'you' do it!

wetin dis one dey talk?

nne3870: Reminds me of how Africa was colonized. Gradually it started like the whites were interested in developing our continent but before our very own eyes we were molested and taken as slaves and our resources stolen to develop their economy.
All hail samsung for bringing another of their Academy to lagos.

Welcome development.

Would you say china as being colonized by japan and the united states. besides it is an acedemy where they would teach us, not a factory.

Good job samsung! But i hope d school fees will b affordable by all class of pple in naija.

A step in d right direction by samsung....

iamswizz: ok.. fashola owns samsung?

It is his governance that makes corporations feel safe to invest in the region.

Businesses value stable leadership and the rule of law. I help people invest in Nigeria and the first thing they ask is what is going to happen after Fashola leaves. If I ask them to consider moving to another region, they refuse, because they don't want to deal with corruption and an unstable environment. Most would rather leave Nigeria and go to Ghana, than move to another state in Nigeria.

This is just the unfortunate truth. If you travel in business circles outside of Nigeria, Fashola is more famous than GEJ by a mile. In fact, Ngozi and Fashola are the only reason people feel positive about Nigerian leadership at all. If you think European bankers, or South Korean executives (Samsung is a South Korean company), are thinking about Peter Obi when they decide where to deploy millions of dollars of investment capital, you are high. They don't even know who he is.

Meanwhile, Fashola's track record speaks for itself.

nne3870: Reminds me of how Africa was colonized. Gradually it started like the whites were interested in developing our continent but before our very own eyes we were molested and taken as slaves and our resources stolen to develop their economy.
All hail samsung for bringing another of their Academy to lagos.

Welcome development.

Nne I ri kwa la ihe taa?

Kairoseki77:

It is his governance that makes corporations feel safe to invest in the region.

Businesses value stable leadership and the rule of law. I help people invest in Nigeria and the first thing they ask is what is going to happen after Fashola leaves. If I ask them to consider moving to another region, they refuse, because they don't want to deal with corruption and an unstable environment. Most would rather leave Nigeria and go to Ghana, than move to another state in Nigeria.

This is just the unfortunate truth. If you travel in business circles outside of Nigeria, Fashola is more famous than GEJ by a mile. In fact, Ngozi and Fashola are the only reason people feel positive about Nigerian leadership at all. If you think European bankers, or South Korean executives (Samsung is a South Korean company), are thinking about Peter Obi when they decide where to deploy millions of dollars of investment capital, you are high. They don't even know who he is.

Meanwhile, Fashola's track record speaks for itself.

#Gbam

Kairoseki77:

It is his governance that makes corporations feel safe to invest in the region.

Businesses value stable leadership and the rule of law. I help people invest in Nigeria and the first thing they ask is what is going to happen after Fashola leaves. If I ask them to consider moving to another region, they refuse, because they don't want to deal with corruption and an unstable environment. Most would rather leave Nigeria and go to Ghana, than move to another state in Nigeria.

This is just the unfortunate truth. If you travel in business circles outside of Nigeria, Fashola is more famous than GEJ by a mile. In fact, Ngozi and Fashola are the only reason people feel positive about Nigerian leadership at all. If you think European bankers, or South Korean executives (Samsung is a South Korean company), are thinking about Peter Obi when they decide where to deploy millions of dollars of investment capital, you are high. They don't even know who he is.

Meanwhile, Fashola's track record speaks for itself.

Besides that, it's a joint venture. The academies are situated within Lagos State Government owned technical schools. The government is always on the lookout for private companies/technical partners to run its skills programme. For example, the government partnered with Coscharis to turn the old Eko Automotive Company into an automobile services centre in which youths would be trained to take up automobile engineering.

At the end 95% of the students will be the so called technocrats that speak badly about Samsung