Techlytics, IHS Nigeria launch TechHER25 to train female engineers in Edge AI deployment

Techlytics Institute of Technology, in partnership with IHS Nigeria, Nigeria’s largest independent owners, operators, and developers of shared communications infrastructure has launched TechHER25, an applied AI programme focused on training 50 female engineers to design and deploy edge-based artificial intelligence systems.

The eight-week programme, hosted at the Faculty of Computing, University of Ibadan, Oyo State will focus on hands-on development using high-performance edge AI hardware, with participants building computer vision systems benchmarked on latency, accuracy, and power efficiency.

TechHER25 is the second deployment under Techlytics’ broader thesis around sovereign AI infrastructure, building local capability to develop and operate intelligent systems within Nigeria.

Participants will work across use cases: real-time safety intelligence, traffic and mobility systems, waste and circular economy tracking, and energy utilisation monitoring. The outputs are designed as early-stage deployable systems with potential integration into public infrastructure and industrial operations.

Titilope Oguntuga, Director, Sustainability at IHS Nigeria Limited, said “We see local technical capability as critical to the future of digital infrastructure. Supporting programmes like this helps build the ecosystem required for that future.”

Oluwatayo Winkunle, Founder and CEO of Techlytics, said: “Every serious conversation about African AI comes back to where the capability lives. This programme puts that capability on campus, in a working lab, in the hands of the engineers building it.”

“These are not academic projects. They are the starting point for systems that can scale into government and industry use cases.”

The programme is backed by IHS Nigeria. They are providing funding, infrastructure and training, including a permanent Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab at the University.

The programme concludes with a demo day in July 2026.