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ICT Training Academy

An accredited training centre in Kano with delivery in Abuja and Lagos. More than 6,400 people trained since 2016, taught by engineers who spend the rest of their week building the systems they teach.

Training delivered by practitioners

The Brilliant Esystems ICT Training Academy opened in Kano in 2016 and has since put more than 6,400 people through its programmes. It is led by Aisha Mohammed Dala, Head of the ICT Training Academy, and its distinguishing feature is simple: almost every instructor is a working engineer or consultant from one of our delivery practices, teaching on release from live projects. The person taking a networking cohort through spanning tree on Monday spent the previous week commissioning switches at a client site in Kaduna, and brings the configuration file with them.

The main centre occupies two floors at our Ahmadu Bello Way headquarters in Kano, with four instructor-led rooms, two hardware laboratories stocked with real Cisco and Fortinet equipment rather than simulators alone, and a cloud laboratory with dedicated AWS and Azure subscriptions so that delegates build in real accounts. We deliver in Abuja from our Bassan Plaza office and in Lagos from Victoria Island, and we run virtual cohorts for organisations whose people are spread across states. On-site delivery at a client’s own premises is available anywhere in Nigeria for closed cohorts of twelve or more.

We are an accredited PECB training partner for ISO standards, an authorised delivery partner for CompTIA and PRINCE2 examinations, and an approved centre for Cisco and cloud vendor curricula. That matters for the certificate, but the thing employers tell us they value is the project work: every technical programme ends with a build that the delegate presents and defends, and the artefact goes into their portfolio. Our own graduate trainee intake draws heavily from Academy cohorts, and around one in nine Academy completers since 2016 has been hired by Brilliant Esystems or by one of our clients directly.

Who we train

Four distinct audiences, taught differently even where the syllabus overlaps.

Career starters

Bootcamps and foundations

Intensive full-time programmes for people entering technology work, ending in a portfolio project, interview preparation and introductions to our hiring network.

Working professionals

Evenings and weekends

Certification-track courses timed around employment, delivered in the evenings, on Saturdays and virtually, with laboratory access retained for ninety days after the course.

Corporate teams

Closed cohorts

Tailored programmes for a single employer, delivered at our centres or on the client’s premises, with content adapted to the technology the team actually operates.

Public servants

Digital literacy and beyond

Structured digital capability programmes for ministries, departments and agencies, from core digital literacy to records management, data protection and ICT project supervision.

Course catalogue

Fees are per delegate, include courseware, laboratory access and one examination voucher where an examination applies, and exclude VAT. Group and public-sector block rates are lower — see the notice below.

Course	Duration	Delivery mode	Fee per delegate
Software Development Bootcamp (full stack)	16 weeks full-time	In-person, Kano; hybrid cohort in Abuja	₦780,000
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)	8 weeks part-time or 3 weeks intensive	In-person with hardware laboratory, Kano and Abuja	₦465,000
AWS Cloud Practitioner and Azure Fundamentals	2 weeks	Virtual or in-person, all three cities	₦210,000
AWS Solutions Architect Associate	6 weeks part-time	Virtual with live laboratories	₦520,000
CompTIA Security+	5 weeks part-time	In-person, Kano and Lagos; virtual cohort available	₦490,000
ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer (PECB)	5 days	In-person, Kano and Abuja	₦695,000
Data Analytics with SQL, Python and Power BI	10 weeks part-time	Hybrid, all three cities	₦430,000
PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner	5 days	In-person, Abuja and Lagos	₦610,000
Project Management Professional (PMP) preparation	6 weeks part-time	Virtual with weekend workshops	₦540,000
Digital Literacy for Public Servants	2 weeks	On-site at MDA premises, nationwide	₦95,000

How to enrol

Five steps from first enquiry to first class. Individual enrolment usually completes within a week; organisational block bookings take two to three weeks because of procurement.

Send an enquiry

Write to [email protected] naming the course and the intended start month, or telephone +234 802 913 8013. Organisations should say how many people, in which cities, and whether delivery is wanted on their own premises. You can also use the form at /contact.

Placement conversation

For technical tracks an adviser runs a short placement conversation, and for the bootcamp a written aptitude exercise, so that nobody is sold a course they will struggle with or bored by one that is beneath them. There is no charge for this and it takes under an hour.

Confirm the cohort and receive an invoice

We confirm the start date, city, timetable and instructor, and issue a proforma invoice. Public-sector clients receive the full documentation pack needed for procurement — tax clearance, accreditation evidence, instructor CVs and a course outline.

Pay and complete registration

Payment by bank transfer secures the seat. Registration captures examination-name details exactly as they appear on official identification, which prevents the most common certification problem we see. Instalment plans over two or three payments are available on programmes above ₦400,000.

Onboarding and first class

A week before the start date you receive joining instructions, laboratory credentials, the courseware pack and the timetable. Laboratory access continues for ninety days after the final session, and every cohort keeps a group channel with the instructor for follow-up questions.

The Academy since 2016

6,400+

People trained

Cumulative since 2016

Delivery cities

Kano centre, Abuja and Lagos

91%

First-attempt pass rate

Certification tracks, FY2025

1 in 9

Hired from cohorts

By us or by our clients

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a technical background to join the bootcamp?

No, but you do need to pass the aptitude exercise and to be able to commit sixteen weeks full-time. Roughly a third of each bootcamp cohort comes from outside technology altogether — teaching, banking operations, retail management, the armed forces. What predicts success is persistence and available time, not a prior qualification. We are candid with applicants whose circumstances make the commitment unrealistic and suggest the part-time route instead.

Are the certificates recognised outside Nigeria?

The vendor and body certifications are: CCNA, CompTIA Security+, AWS and Azure credentials, PECB ISO certifications, PRINCE2 and PMP are all internationally recognised and awarded by the body concerned, not by us. Our own Academy certificate of completion is a record of attendance and project work, and is recognised by employers who know us, which is a different and more modest claim.

What happens if I fail the examination?

You may re-sit any class of the course free of charge within twelve months, and we will pay for one examination re-sit voucher where the delegate attended at least ninety per cent of sessions and completed the project work. Our first-attempt pass rate across certification tracks was ninety-one per cent in FY2025, and instructors run additional revision clinics before every examination window.

Can you deliver at our own offices?

Yes, anywhere in Nigeria, for closed cohorts of twelve or more. We bring instructors, courseware and, for networking courses, a portable hardware laboratory. The client provides the room, power and internet connectivity. On-site delivery attracts a logistics charge outside Kano, Abuja and Lagos, quoted at the point of booking.

Do you help with employment afterwards?

On the bootcamp and the data analytics track, yes: interview preparation, portfolio review, curriculum vitae clinics and introductions to employers in our network, including our own recruitment team. We do not guarantee a job and are suspicious of training providers who do. See /careers/graduate-programme for our own graduate trainee intake and /careers/open-roles for current vacancies.

Is there support for women returning to work?

Yes. The Academy reserves a proportion of scholarship places on each bootcamp and data analytics cohort for women returning to the workforce after a career break, with flexible timetabling and, at the Kano centre, a supervised crèche during class hours. Enquiries to [email protected] marked for the returners programme. Our wider community work is described at /about/csr.

Corporate and government block bookings

Organisations training ten or more people should not buy at list price. Block rates start at a fifteen per cent discount for ten to twenty-four delegates, twenty-five per cent for twenty-five to forty-nine, and are negotiated above that. Training block-hours can be pre-purchased against a financial year and drawn down across any combination of courses, cities and cohorts for twelve months, which suits organisations whose budget release and training need do not arrive at the same time.

For MDAs we supply the full procurement pack — CAC and BPP registration evidence, current tax clearance, PECB and vendor accreditation certificates, instructor CVs, course outlines, attendance and completion reporting formats — within two working days of request. Write to [email protected] or telephone +234 802 913 8013 and ask for the Academy booking desk. Training is frequently bought alongside a platform rollout — see /solutions/school-management-system and /solutions/hr-payroll-suite — and our public-sector capability programmes are described at /industries/government.

Train a team, or start a career

Tell us who needs training and what they need to be able to do afterwards. Aisha Dala’s team will propose a cohort plan, a timetable that fits around the work, and a price that reflects the numbers involved.

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