Available courses

Six-module course on AI in African creative industries — Nollywood production, Afrobeats and music, journalism, advertising, and rights and ethics for African creators.

Six-module course on AI in African energy, climate and infrastructure — grid management, mini-grids, climate risk, predictive maintenance, and AI governance under the Electricity Act 2023.

Six-module course on AI in African financial services — credit decisioning, fraud and AML, RegTech, customer experience, and AI risk governance under CBN and NDPA.

An ADBOK-aligned course on artificial intelligence in African agriculture and food systems. Built for students, agronomists, agritech operators, donor program officers, and ministry staff working in the continent's largest employer. Six weeks. Anchored in real deployments at Nigerian, Kenyan, and pan-African agritech companies. Aligned to NUC CCMAS digital-skills requirements and the African Union Continental AI Strategy.

AI for Government / Public Sector (AIG-101) is an applied course for Nigerian civil servants, policy advisors, parastatal staff, local government officers, and NGO leaders who decide on, deploy, or oversee AI in service of government work.

Across six modules, the course covers what AI is actually being used for in Nigerian MDAs and state governments; citizen-facing AI under the NDPA and NAIS; AI for the internal civil-service workforce; procurement and vendor management; implementing the National AI Strategy at agency level; and governance, transparency, and the longer view.

Prerequisite: AI Foundations (AIF-101) or equivalent.

Time commitment: ~12–15 hours across six modules.

AI for Educators is a six-week sector course for Nigerian teachers, lecturers, vocational and TVET instructors, training managers, instructional designers, school administrators, and education policy professionals who want to engage with AI seriously in 2026. The course assumes you understand what AI is at a conceptual level (AI Foundations) and takes you from there into the live questions in your classroom and institution: how to use AI for lesson design and content creation, how to deploy AI tutoring responsibly, how to redesign assessment in an age when every student has a chatbot, how to teach AI literacy to students from JSS1 to final-year university, and how to build responsible AI practice at the institutional level. Every module is grounded in Nigerian education reality — large class sizes, infrastructure variance, the WAEC/NECO/JAMB system, the FUE/state university split, the TVET sector, NUC oversight, and the spectrum of student backgrounds. You will leave the course able to redesign your teaching, advise your institution credibly, and engage parents, students, and the press on AI in education without hype or fear.

Prerequisites: AI Foundations (AIF-101) or equivalent conceptual understanding. The course does not assume programming skill, but assumes working familiarity with classroom or teaching practice at primary, secondary, tertiary, vocational, or training level.

AI for Healthcare is a six-week sector course for Nigerian clinicians, hospital administrators, public-health practitioners, regulators, and healthcare policy professionals who need to engage with AI seriously in 2026. The course assumes you understand what AI is at a conceptual level (AI Foundations) and takes you from there into the clinical and public-health questions actually on the table: where AI is genuinely working in care delivery, where it is over-promised, what NAFDAC and the NDPC expect of AI-enabled medical devices and data flows, how to evaluate evidence for clinical AI, and how to build responsible AI practice into a Nigerian healthcare organisation. Every module is grounded in Nigerian clinical reality — public/private mix, NHIS, infrastructure variance across urban and rural settings, the doctor-patient ratios, and the realistic constraints of frontline care. You will leave this course able to read a clinical AI claim and tell signal from noise, advise your organisation on responsible deployment, and engage credibly with patients, regulators, and journalists.

Prerequisites: AI Foundations (AIF-101) or equivalent conceptual understanding. The course does not assume programming skill, but does assume clinical or public-health domain familiarity at a working level.

AI for Developers is a six-week technical course for engineers, data scientists, ML practitioners and tech leads who want to build with AI competently in 2026. The course assumes you understand what AI is at a conceptual level (AI Foundations) and have used AI tools personally (AI Tools for Work), and takes you from there into how AI systems are actually engineered: foundation-model APIs, prompting at production quality, retrieval-augmented generation, agents and tool use, fine-tuning and small models, and the operational discipline — evaluation, observability, safety and compliance — that separates demos from systems people depend on. Every module is grounded in code-level decisions, real cost numbers, and the Nigerian developer’s reality of bandwidth, naira budgets, vendor availability, and the Nigeria Data Protection Act. You will leave this course able to design and ship an AI-powered feature, defend the choices you made, and operate it responsibly in production.

Prerequisites: AI Foundations (AIF-101) and AI Tools for Work (AITW-101), or equivalent. You should also be a working software engineer or data scientist — comfortable reading and writing code in at least one mainstream language (Python or JavaScript/TypeScript recommended), comfortable with REST APIs, the command line, and git. This is not a programming primer.

AI Ethics, Risk and Governance is a six-week deep-dive into the responsible AI questions every Nigerian organisation, regulator and citizen now has to engage with. Building on AI Foundations, it covers where AI causes harm, what the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 actually requires, what the National AI Strategy commits the country to, how to assess and audit AI risk, and how to build responsible AI practice into an organisation. Every module is grounded in Nigerian law, Nigerian cases, and Nigerian institutional reality, with international context where useful.

Prerequisite: AI Foundations (AIF-101) or equivalent conceptual understanding.

For: Compliance officers, legal counsel, data protection officers, risk managers, policy professionals, civil-society advocates, regulators, journalists, and citizens.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Identify and classify the ethical and legal risks of an AI deployment in any sector.
  • Apply the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 to AI use cases with confidence.
  • Explain Nigeria's National AI Strategy and its implications for regulated organisations.
  • Design and conduct AI risk assessments and audits.
  • Build a governance practice that handles AI incidents responsibly when they happen.

AI for Business Leaders is a six-week strategy course for Nigerian executives, founders, managers and board members. It assumes you have completed AI Foundations and AI Tools for Work; this course is about the decisions only the leader can make. You will learn how to evaluate AI vendors and avoid the procurement traps, how to build an AI strategy that survives the next three years, how to govern AI in an organisation operating under the Nigeria Data Protection Act and the National AI Strategy, how to lead the change in talent, culture and performance management that AI demands, and how to actually measure whether the AI investment is paying back.

Prerequisites: AI Foundations (AIF-101) and AI Tools for Work (AITW-101), or equivalent practical understanding.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Evaluate AI vendors and procurement proposals with confidence.
  • Design and pressure-test an AI strategy and roadmap for your organisation.
  • Build the governance and risk framework that satisfies the NDPA, the NAIS, and your board.
  • Lead the talent, culture and performance changes that determine whether AI investment actually pays off.
  • Measure ROI in a way that captures both visible productivity gains and the harder-to-see value.

AI Tools for Work is a six-week, hands-on companion to AI Foundations. Where AI Foundations built your mental model of what AI is, this course makes you usefully fast with the tools that have already arrived at work — chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, image and audio generators, transcription, spreadsheet helpers, browsing agents, and the workflows that chain them together. Every module is built around tasks Nigerian professionals do every day, and shows you the prompts, the gotchas, and the privacy questions to ask before you commit. You will leave able to choose the right tool for a task, get good output from it the first time, and protect your data while you do.

Prerequisite: AI Foundations (AIF-101) or equivalent practical understanding of what AI is.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Identify the major AI tools relevant to your work and pick the right one for a given task.
  • Write effective prompts that get good results on the first or second attempt.
  • Use AI to dramatically speed up writing, research, analysis and creative work.
  • Combine multiple AI tools into reliable personal workflows.
  • Apply security and privacy practices that keep your organisation's data safe.

A plain-language introduction to artificial intelligence built for learners with no prior technical background. Learn what AI is and is not, how machine-learning models are trained, how AI is being deployed across Nigerian banking, health, agriculture, and government, and how to evaluate AI claims you encounter in business.

By the end of this course you can
  • Explain in plain English what AI is and how machine learning differs from traditional software.
  • Identify three concrete ways AI is deployed in a Nigerian sector relevant to your career.
  • Distinguish hype from substance when reading AI news, vendor pitches, or policy claims.
  • Articulate the main ethical and bias risks AI introduces in African contexts.

NIST AI Risk Management Framework Fundamentals is a six-week, foundation-level introduction to the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology’s voluntary framework for managing the risks of artificial intelligence, taught for the Nigerian context. It covers why AI risk is genuinely different from ordinary IT risk, the four functions at the heart of the framework — Govern, Map, Measure and Manage — and how a Nigerian organisation can put the framework to work under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and a watching NDPC.

By the end you will be able to explain the framework in plain language, walk through each of its four functions, and operationalise it through profiles and risk scoring — including how it sits alongside ISO/IEC 42001 and the NDPA.

For: Compliance officers, risk managers, internal auditors, AI and IT leaders, data protection officers, and public-sector and university administrators who need a practical, structured way to govern AI.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Governance is a six-week, Foundation-level course built for the Nigerian context. It explains what AI governance is, why an organization needs it before AI is deployed at scale, and how the moving parts — the AI lifecycle, enterprise risks, responsible-AI principles, the global standards landscape, and accountable governance structures — fit together. The treatment is practical and opinionated, grounded in the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, the NDPC, NITDA and the National AI Strategy, alongside accurate accounts of ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the EU AI Act.

By the end you will be able to define AI governance to a board, map governance across the AI lifecycle, build a basic AI risk register, apply responsible-AI principles, compare the major global frameworks, and sketch a foundational governance structure for your own organisation.

For: Executives, project and product managers, compliance and risk teams, public-sector and university leaders, and professionals beginning the path to the Certified AI Governance Associate (CAIGA) certificate.

Foundations of ISO/IEC 42001 is a six-week introduction to the world’s first Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) standard, built for the Nigerian context. It covers what the standard requires, why each requirement exists, and what it actually takes to stand up an AIMS in a Nigerian organisation under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and a watching NDPC. By the end you will be able to read the standard with confidence, explain it to a board, and draft the foundational documents an AIMS needs.

For: Compliance officers, risk managers, internal auditors, AI/IT leaders, public-sector and university administrators preparing for certification or regulator scrutiny.

Responsible AI Implementation is a six-week, intermediate course on the unglamorous work of turning AI ethics principles into operating controls. It is about the gap between a “Responsible AI” slide and an AI system that is actually fair, explainable, overseen by a named human, and auditable — and how a Nigerian organisation closes that gap under the NDPA 2023, a watching NDPC, and sector regulators such as the CBN, NAFDAC and NCC.

You will learn to mitigate bias, operationalise transparency and explainability, design human-in-the-loop oversight, stand up an ethics review board, conduct AI impact assessments across the lifecycle, and run an AI ethics audit. Throughout, international frameworks — ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI RMF, the OECD AI Principles, the UNESCO Recommendation and the EU AI Act — are treated as the toolkit, with the application localised to Nigeria.

For: AI governance professionals, compliance and risk officers, internal auditors, data scientists and AI engineers, project managers, and public-sector and university leaders moving from AI principles to operational accountability.

AI Risk Management & Assurance is a six-week, intermediate course on the practical work of evaluating and assuring artificial-intelligence systems. It teaches you to identify AI risks across the lifecycle, assess bias, hallucination, explainability and security exposures, design governance controls and human oversight, build risk registers and AI impact assessment reports, and run monitoring, testing and assurance — all anchored to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage) and ISO/IEC 42001, and applied under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.

By the end you will be able to run an AI risk assessment, populate an enterprise risk register, write a defensible AI impact assessment, select proportionate controls, stand up monitoring and incident response, and judge an organisation’s AI governance maturity.

For: Risk managers, internal auditors, compliance officers, cybersecurity and AI assurance professionals, AI project managers, and public-sector governance teams who must evaluate and assure AI in a Nigerian and African context.

AI Governance Policy Development is a six-week intermediate course on writing the policies that actually govern AI inside an organisation — acceptable use, generative-AI controls, risk and compliance, responsible-AI and ethics, vendor and data governance, and incident response. It is built for the Nigerian context: the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, a watching NDPC and NITDA, the National AI Strategy, and sector regulators such as the CBN, NAFDAC and NCC. You will not learn to admire policies — you will learn to draft enforceable ones.

Across the course you build a practical deliverable set: an enterprise AI governance handbook and a library of policy templates you can take back to your own organisation and put to work.

For: Compliance officers, risk managers, internal auditors, AI and project leads, legal and policy teams, and public-sector, university and healthcare administrators who must write or own AI policy rather than merely cite it.

AI Incident Response & Crisis Management is an advanced, six-week professional course for the people who get the call when an AI system goes wrong. It teaches you to recognise an AI incident, classify its severity, contain the damage, manage the harmful outputs and security breaches that follow, meet the Nigeria Data Protection Act’s notification duties to the NDPC, and lead an organisation through the communication and recovery that decide whether it keeps its customers and its licence. The course assumes you already understand basic AI governance; it is about what you do when governance has failed and the clock is running.

For: Incident managers, security and SOC leads, risk and compliance officers, data protection officers, AI/ML operations engineers, and the executives who will chair the crisis room when a model misbehaves in production.

AI Regulatory Compliance & Readiness is a six-week, advanced course for practitioners who must keep an organisation’s artificial-intelligence systems on the right side of the law and ready for scrutiny. It moves from the principles behind AI regulation, through the EU AI Act and the global patchwork of AI laws, into privacy and data protection under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and the GDPR, then into the concrete obligations that attach to high-risk AI, the documentation and audit trail that proves compliance, the monitoring and reporting duties that continue after launch, and finally what happens when a regulator comes knocking.

By the end you will be able to explain why AI is regulated and how the major regimes are built, classify a system under the EU AI Act’s risk tiers and identify its obligations, reconcile AI governance with the NDPA and GDPR, assemble the technical documentation a regulator expects, run post-market monitoring and meet reporting duties, respond competently to an investigation, and design an enterprise compliance-readiness programme that holds up under the NDPC, the CBN, NAFDAC or the NCC.

For: Compliance officers, data protection officers, regulatory and legal professionals, risk managers, AI and product leaders, internal auditors, and public-sector oversight staff in Nigerian organisations preparing for AI regulation and regulator scrutiny.

AI Red Teaming & Assurance is an advanced, six-week professional programme for practitioners who must probe AI systems for weakness before someone hostile does. It teaches authorised, structured adversarial testing of AI — threat modelling, prompt-injection and jailbreak testing, robustness and safety evaluation, governance assurance, and the running of an enterprise red-team programme — grounded in the realities of deploying AI in Nigerian organisations under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and a watching NDPC.

This is dual-use security education for defenders. Everything here is framed for authorised assurance work: testing systems you are permitted to test, under written scope, to make them safer. By the end you will be able to plan and run a responsible AI red-team engagement, evidence the findings, and feed them into a governance system that an auditor and a regulator will accept.

For: Security engineers, AI assurance and risk leads, internal auditors, ML engineers moving into safety, and governance professionals responsible for high-impact AI in banking, health, telecoms and the public sector.

AI Vendor Risk Management is an advanced, six-week programme for practitioners who govern the AI their organisation buys rather than builds. Most Nigerian enterprises consume AI through foreign cloud platforms, scoring APIs, embedded vendor features and resold models — and the risk does not transfer with the supplier. This course turns that uncomfortable fact into a working discipline: how to assess a vendor before signing, what to demand in the contract, how to govern cloud and API dependencies, how to monitor a relationship you do not control, and how to run all of it as a programme an auditor and the NDPC can verify.

It assumes you already understand AI governance fundamentals and ISO/IEC 42001 at a high level. It builds the third-party layer on top: due diligence, procurement, contract terms, cloud and API governance, ongoing assurance, and enterprise programme design, anchored in the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and the expectations of the NDPC, NITDA, the CBN and sector regulators.

For: Vendor-risk and procurement leads, third-party risk managers, compliance and DPO functions, internal auditors, CISOs and AI governance owners in banks, fintechs, telcos, hospitals, public agencies and any organisation whose AI capability is largely purchased.

ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer is the Institute’s flagship professional certification: a six-week, practitioner-grade programme that takes you from understanding the standard to running an enterprise-wide implementation. You will learn to lead the full lifecycle — readiness and gap assessment, governance structures, the operating model, risk and responsible-AI controls, internal audit, and the road to external certification — in the Nigerian context of the NDPA 2023, a watching NDPC, and sector regulators such as the CBN, NAFDAC and NCC.

This is not an awareness course. It assumes you will be accountable for delivery, and it equips you to build a defensible Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS), sequence the work, and bring an organisation to certification readiness without surprises.

For: AI governance leads, compliance and risk executives, Chief AI Officers, internal audit leaders, enterprise architects and ISO implementation professionals charged with standing up and certifying an AIMS.

ISO/IEC 42001 Internal Auditor is an advanced, six-week professional course that trains you to plan and conduct internal audits of an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS). Grounded in ISO/IEC 42001 and the auditing discipline of ISO 19011, it takes you from audit principles through planning, evidence collection and control testing to writing nonconformities, driving corrective action, and running a full simulated AI governance audit in a Nigerian organisation.

The course localises every technique to the Nigerian setting — the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, the NDPC, NITDA and sector regulators such as the CBN, NAFDAC and NCC — while keeping the ISO 42001 and ISO 19011 audit facts accurate. By the end you will be able to audit an AIMS independently, defensibly, and in a way an external certification body would recognise.

For: Internal auditors, compliance officers, risk managers, AI governance and ISO professionals, cybersecurity auditors, and public-sector oversight teams preparing to audit AI governance or to support certification.

AI Auditing & Compliance is a six-week, advanced course for practitioners who must give an organisation’s board, its regulator and its customers credible assurance that its artificial-intelligence systems are lawful, governed and trustworthy. It teaches the working craft of the AI auditor: scoping an engagement, gathering evidence that holds up, testing controls rather than reading about them, mapping obligations under the EU AI Act, GDPR and the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, reviewing responsible-AI and vendor governance, investigating incidents, and bringing an organisation to audit readiness.

By the end you will be able to plan and run an AI governance audit, collect and weigh evidence, test responsible-AI and lifecycle controls, assess compliance against the major frameworks as they apply in Nigeria, investigate a governance failure to its root cause, and operate an enterprise AI assurance programme.

For: Internal auditors, compliance officers, risk managers, cybersecurity auditors, responsible-AI teams, legal and regulatory professionals, public-sector oversight bodies and enterprise governance leaders preparing for regulator scrutiny and AI assurance work.

The Chief AI Governance Officer Programme is the campus’s executive flagship: a six-week leadership programme for the person who will own artificial intelligence governance at the most senior level of a Nigerian enterprise. It assumes you already understand what governance is and asks the harder question — how do you lead it across an entire organisation, answer to a board, satisfy the NDPC and sector regulators, and keep the enterprise both safe and competitive while AI reshapes it.

This is not a controls course. It is about strategy, accountability, operating models, regulatory posture, crisis leadership and organisational change — the work of a Chief AI Governance Officer (CAIGO) who sits in the C-suite and is answerable when AI helps or harms.

For: Chief AI governance officers, chief risk and compliance officers, general counsel, chief data and digital officers, and the executives and non-executive directors who appoint and oversee them.

Enterprise AI Assurance Leadership is a six-week, executive programme for the people who must give the board, the regulator and the market confidence that an organisation’s AI is governed, audited and accountable. It is not a course in building models or writing policies. It is about leading assurance — standing up the structures, audits, metrics and accountability that let a senior leader say, with evidence behind them, that the organisation knows what its AI is doing and can prove it.

Set firmly in the Nigerian context — the NDPA 2023, a watching NDPC, NITDA’s national direction, and sector regulators such as the CBN — the programme treats assurance as a leadership discipline, connected to the things a board already understands: liability, reputation, regulatory exposure and trust. By the end you will be able to design an enterprise assurance function, commission and read AI audits, build governance metrics that mean something, and lead the transformation that makes assurance sustainable.

For: Chief risk and compliance officers, chief audit executives, heads of AI governance, executive sponsors of AI programmes, and the senior leaders who must answer for AI to a board or a regulator.

Advanced AI Governance Strategy is a six-week executive programme for directors, C-suite leaders and senior governance owners who must steer an organisation’s use of AI from the top. It is not a controls course. It is about strategy, operating models, accountability and oversight: how a board sets the appetite, how the executive builds an operating model that scales, and how leadership turns “we have a policy” into a governed enterprise capability under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and a watching NDPC.

By the end you will be able to frame AI governance as a board-level strategic concern, choose and defend an operating model, sequence a multi-year governance transformation, read the maturity of your own organisation, lead responsibly under pressure, design the metrics and reporting a board actually needs, and reason about where enterprise AI governance is heading.

For: Board members, CEOs, CFOs, chief risk and compliance officers, Chief AI and data officers, and senior public-sector and bank executives accountable for AI to a board, a regulator or the public.

AI Ethics for Executives is a six-week, board-facing programme for the people who carry ultimate accountability for how an organisation uses artificial intelligence. It is not a technical course. It is about the decisions only leaders can make — what the organisation will and will not do with AI, who answers when it goes wrong, and how ethical posture becomes a source of trust rather than a source of risk.

Set firmly in the Nigerian context — the NDPA 2023, a watching NDPC, NITDA’s national direction, and sector regulators such as the CBN — the programme connects ethics to the things a board already understands: reputation, strategy, liability, and shareholder value. By the end you will be able to set the ethical tone, ask the questions that expose weak governance, and hold management to account on AI.

For: Board members, chief executives, executive directors, and senior leaders who sponsor, approve or answer for AI — not the engineers who build it.

Generative AI Governance is a six-week, specialisation-level course for practitioners who must govern the wave of generative tools — chatbots, copilots, image and document generators — now spreading through Nigerian organisations. It moves beyond general AI governance to the specific, awkward problems generative systems create: confident falsehoods, leaked data through prompts, synthetic content with no provenance, copyright exposure, and adoption that outruns any policy. It teaches what to govern, which controls actually work, and how to assure a board and the NDPC that an enterprise GenAI programme is under control.

By the end you will be able to frame the governance problem generative AI poses, run a GenAI risk assessment, design prompt and safety controls, govern AI-generated content and its copyright and IP exposure, deploy responsibly with monitoring and assurance in place, and read where regulation and practice are heading.

For: AI governance leads, risk and compliance officers, data protection officers, internal auditors, product and engineering leaders, legal counsel, and public-sector and enterprise teams rolling out copilots and generative tools under the NDPA 2023 and a watching NDPC.

AI Governance for Global Development Agencies is a six-week specialisation for the people who decide how artificial intelligence is used in aid, humanitarian response and development programming. It is built for the Nigerian and African operating reality: UN agencies, international NGOs and donor-funded programmes deploying AI in places with patchy connectivity, vulnerable populations and a watching regulator under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023. The course treats governance as a practical discipline, not a values statement — what to put in writing, who must own it, and how to prove it to a donor, a board or the NDPC.

By the end you will be able to design a governance system for AI in a development context, run an impact assessment that respects both ISO/IEC 42001 and the NDPA, hold programmes accountable to the people they serve, and align AI decisions with the Sustainable Development Goals rather than against them.

For: Programme directors, MEAL and data leads, country-office managers, donor and partnership officers, digital-development advisers, and governance, risk and protection staff in UN agencies, INGOs, foundations and government counterparts.

AI Governance for Law Enforcement is a six-week specialisation for those who must govern artificial intelligence inside policing, security and criminal-justice institutions, built for the Nigerian context. It moves past general principles into the hard cases: facial recognition at a checkpoint, a predictive-policing map that concentrates patrols on one community, an automated watch-list that flags the wrong citizen. By the end you will be able to design oversight that holds up in court and before the public, weigh operational need against constitutional rights under the 1999 Constitution and the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, and run an accountable law-enforcement AI programme that the NDPC, the National Human Rights Commission and an ordinary Nigerian can trust.

For: Police technology and intelligence leads, oversight-body and ministry officials, data protection officers in security agencies, internal-affairs and audit staff, civil-society monitors and legal advisers working on policing and surveillance.

AI Governance for Human Resources is a six-week specialisation for the people who decide how AI touches the workforce. It moves past general principles into the specific decisions HR makes every day — who gets shortlisted, who gets promoted, who gets monitored, who gets let go — and shows how to govern the algorithms now sitting behind those decisions. The course is built for the Nigerian context: the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, a watching NDPC, the Labour Act, and the practical reality of recruiting, managing and developing people across Lagos, Abuja, Kano and beyond.

By the end you will be able to identify where AI already shapes HR decisions in your organisation, run a bias and impact assessment on a hiring or performance tool, govern employee monitoring lawfully, write the policies and records a regulator or tribunal would accept, and stand up a full HR AI governance programme.

For: HR directors and business partners, talent-acquisition leads, people-analytics teams, employment-law and compliance officers, data protection officers, and the executives accountable for how a workforce is treated.

AI Governance for Energy & Utilities is a six-week specialisation for the people who keep Nigeria’s lights on and its taps running. It takes the discipline of AI management systems and applies it where the consequences are physical: a grid that must balance in real time, assets that fail dangerously when neglected, and a sector watched by NERC, NITDA and the NDPC. By the end you will be able to govern AI across generation, transmission, distribution and retail — from smart-grid optimisation and predictive maintenance to renewable forecasting and operational safety — and run an enterprise energy AI programme that survives an outage, an audit and a regulator’s questions.

For: DisCo and GenCo engineers and risk leads, grid and control-room operators, asset and reliability managers, energy cybersecurity teams, renewable IPP analysts, and the compliance and governance staff who answer to NERC and the NDPC.

This is a Specialisation-level course: it assumes you already grasp the basics of AI governance and want to apply them to the specific, high-consequence reality of power and utilities.

AI Governance for Critical Infrastructure is a six-week specialisation for practitioners who govern artificial intelligence inside the systems a nation cannot afford to fail — the power grid, water utilities, ports and pipelines, telecommunications, and the agencies that respond when any of them break. It moves past general AI management to the harder question: how do you govern AI when an undetected fault is not a customer complaint but a blackout, a contaminated supply, or a stalled emergency response?

The course builds from foundations through national-scale risk, operational resilience, cybersecurity, public-safety governance, monitoring and assurance, and finishes with a capstone on national and enterprise resilience programmes. It localises to Nigeria throughout — the NDPA 2023, NITDA, the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and the National Critical Information Infrastructure regime — while keeping ISO/IEC, NIST and EU AI Act references accurate.

For: Risk and resilience leads, operational-technology and security managers, regulators and policy staff, and AI/IT leaders inside power, water, transport, telecoms and the public agencies that depend on them.

AI Governance for Manufacturing is a six-week specialisation for people who must govern artificial intelligence on the factory floor — not as a slide deck, but as machines that move, weld, sort, predict and decide in real time. It builds on management-system thinking (ISO/IEC 42001) and applies it to the hard realities of industrial AI: smart factories, robots that share space with people, predictive maintenance, supply chains, cybersecurity for operational technology, and the assurance that lets a board and a regulator trust all of it. The Nigerian context runs throughout — the NDPA 2023, NITDA, and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) — alongside accurate use of ISO, NIST and the EU AI Act.

By the end you will be able to scope a manufacturing AI governance programme, classify and control industrial AI risk, govern robots and predictive systems safely, secure AI-enabled operational technology, and run an audit and assurance cycle that survives scrutiny.

For: Plant managers, quality and EHS leaders, OT and IT security staff, industrial engineers, risk and compliance officers, and AI/automation leads in Nigerian and African manufacturing.

AI Governance for Telecommunications is a six-week specialisation for the people who govern AI inside Nigeria’s telecoms operators and their vendors. The industry runs on AI already — the model that decides where to route traffic, the engine that scores a subscriber for a loan, the system that flags a SIM for fraud, the algorithm that predicts which tower will fail next. Most of it was deployed by engineering and analytics teams with no governance question asked. This course shows how to bring that AI under control: lawfully, accountably, and in a way the NCC and the NDPC would accept as evidence.

The course is built for the Nigerian context — the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, a watching NDPC, the Nigerian Communications Commission and its licence conditions, and the operational reality of running networks at MTN, Airtel and Glo scale across Lagos, Abuja, Kano and the underserved rural fringe. International standards (ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act) are kept accurate; the application is localised to Nigerian telecoms.

For: Telecoms risk and compliance leads, network and data-science managers, regulatory-affairs officers, data protection officers, internal auditors, and the executives accountable for how a network treats its subscribers.

AI Governance for Insurance is a six-week specialisation for the people who decide how AI underwrites, prices, pays and polices risk. It moves past general principles into the specific decisions an insurer makes every day — who is offered cover, at what premium, whose claim is fast-tracked, whose claim is flagged as fraud — and shows how to govern the models now sitting behind those decisions. The course is built for the Nigerian context: the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, a watching NDPC, the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) as sector regulator, and the practical reality of selling and settling insurance across Lagos, Abuja, Kano and beyond.

By the end you will be able to identify where AI already shapes insurance decisions, govern underwriting and claims models, oversee fraud and risk-modelling systems lawfully, run a bias and impact assessment on a pricing tool, meet NAICOM and NDPC expectations with auditable records, and stand up a full enterprise insurance AI governance programme.

For: Chief risk and compliance officers in insurance, heads of underwriting and claims, actuarial and data-science leads, internal auditors, data protection officers, and the executives accountable for how policyholders are treated.

AI Governance for Smart Cities is a six-week specialisation for the people who build, buy and oversee the algorithms now running urban life — traffic systems, surveillance cameras, public-service portals, utility networks and the data platforms beneath them. It moves past glossy “smart-city” marketing into the hard questions: who is accountable when a model misdirects an ambulance, profiles a neighbourhood, or wrongly cuts off a citizen from a service. The course is built for the Nigerian context — the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, a watching NDPC, NITDA’s national direction, and the real smart-city and transport programmes already running in Lagos, Abuja and beyond.

By the end you will be able to map where AI already governs your city, run risk and impact assessments on urban AI infrastructure, govern public surveillance and transport systems lawfully, hold vendors and agencies accountable, build public trust through transparency, and set a credible smart-city AI governance strategy.

For: State and municipal officials, urban-planning and transport authorities, smart-city programme leads, public-sector data protection officers, civil-society and oversight bodies, and the vendors and consultants who deliver urban AI.

AI Safety Engineering is a six-week specialisation for the technical practitioners who build, deploy and assure AI systems where failure has real-world consequences. It moves past principles into engineering: how AI systems fail, how to design controls that catch failure before it reaches a person, how to test a system adversarially, how to suppress harmful outputs, and how to monitor a live system so safety is a measured property rather than a hope. By the end you will be able to reason about failure modes, build a safety control stack, run a red-team, and stand up a safety assurance programme that an engineer, an auditor and the NDPC could all trust.

For: ML engineers, data scientists, MLOps and platform engineers, technical risk and assurance leads, and AI product owners deploying safety-critical AI in Nigerian banking, health, telecoms and public-sector contexts.

This is a Specialisation-level course. It assumes you can read code and reason about models; it teaches you to make them safe under the NDPA 2023, NITDA guidance, and international practice such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001.

AI Governance for Defence & National Security is a specialisation-level, six-week programme for the people who must govern artificial intelligence in the most consequential setting of all — where decisions touch sovereignty, public safety and human life. It builds on management-system fundamentals and applies them to the Nigerian defence and national-security context: the Office of the National Security Adviser, the Nigerian Armed Forces, the intelligence community, and the agencies that protect critical national infrastructure, all operating under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and the oversight of the NDPC and NITDA.

The course is about responsible governance and human oversight, not operational tradecraft. It teaches how to assure, audit and hold accountable the AI a defence organisation builds or buys — consistent with international humanitarian law and recognised standards such as ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. By the end you will be able to design governance for high-stakes defence AI, demand meaningful human control, run defence-grade assurance and incident response, and contribute to national AI-security strategy.

For: Defence and security policy staff, military and intelligence officers in governance or oversight roles, ONSA and NITDA personnel, internal auditors, legal advisers on the law of armed conflict, and contractors supplying AI to the security sector.

AI Governance for Higher Education is a six-week specialisation for the people who run Nigerian universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. It takes the general discipline of AI governance and applies it where the stakes are particular: teaching, assessment, student records, research integrity and institutional administration. It covers what good governance looks like inside an academic institution, why each control exists, and what it takes to stand one up under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, a watching NDPC, and the expectations of the National Universities Commission.

By the end you will be able to design an institutional AI governance framework, write defensible policies on academic integrity and student data, govern faculty and research use of AI, and lead an institution-wide programme from first policy to mature practice.

For: Vice-chancellors, rectors, provosts, registrars, deans, heads of ICT and data protection, quality-assurance officers, librarians, and senate or council members responsible for AI policy in tertiary institutions.

AI Governance for Financial Services is a six-week specialisation for the people who decide how algorithms touch money, credit and trust in a regulated institution. It moves past general principles into the specific decisions a bank, fintech, insurer or asset manager makes every day — who gets a loan, which transaction is frozen, what a customer is charged, which account is flagged — and shows how to govern the models now sitting behind those decisions. The course is built for the Nigerian context: the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, a watching NDPC, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the NDIC, the SEC, and the practical reality of running a regulated financial business across Lagos, Abuja and Kano.

By the end you will be able to map where AI already drives financial decisions in your institution, apply model risk management discipline to those models, govern fraud and credit systems lawfully, run the assurance a supervisor would accept, hold your AI vendors accountable, and stand up a full financial AI governance programme that survives a CBN examination.

For: Chief risk officers, model risk and credit risk managers, heads of compliance and internal audit, fintech founders and product leads, data protection officers, and the executives accountable to the CBN, SEC and NDIC for how their institutions use AI.

AI Governance for Healthcare is a six-week specialisation for the people responsible for AI where the stakes are a patient’s body, not a customer’s click. It moves past general principles into the specific decisions healthcare makes — who gets triaged first, which scan is flagged, which drug dose is suggested, who is predicted to deteriorate — and shows how to govern the models now sitting behind those decisions. The course is built for the Nigerian context: the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and a watching NDPC, the medical-device and product oversight of NAFDAC, the professional duties enforced by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, the claims and coverage role of the NHIA, and the daily reality of teaching hospitals in Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja.

By the end you will be able to identify where AI already shapes clinical and administrative decisions in your facility, navigate the regulatory and patient-data landscape, run a clinical risk and impact assessment on a diagnostic or triage tool, embed responsible-AI safeguards into care pathways, audit a deployed healthcare AI system, manage an AI incident that reaches a patient, and stand up a full enterprise healthcare AI governance programme.

For: Hospital medical directors and clinical governance leads, health-system quality and safety officers, data protection officers, biomedical and health-informatics teams, hospital risk and compliance managers, HMO and NHIA-facing administrators, and the executives accountable for patient safety.

AI Governance for Government & Public Sector is a six-week specialisation for the people who must answer for AI inside the Nigerian state. It moves from the foundations of why public-sector AI is a category of its own, through national policy and regulatory oversight, public trust and transparency, procurement and vendor governance, responsible operations and risk, and ends with an audit-and-assurance capstone. Throughout, it grounds international practice — the EU AI Act, the OECD AI Principles, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework — in Nigerian reality: the NDPA 2023, the NDPC, NITDA, the National AI Strategy, federal and state MDAs, and the Public Procurement Act.

By the end you will be able to design governance arrangements for a ministry, department or agency; scrutinise an AI procurement; assess and treat the risks of a public-facing system; and lead or commission an assurance review that a regulator or auditor-general would respect.

For: Civil servants, MDA directors and ICT leads, policy advisers, public-sector internal auditors and procurement officers, regulators, and oversight-body staff governing AI in Nigerian government.

Aviation is the most safety-critical environment in which artificial intelligence is now being deployed — in flight operations, air traffic management, predictive maintenance, and airport security. When an AI system shapes a decision in this sector, the cost of a failure is measured in lives, not refunds. This specialisation prepares professionals to govern AI in aviation responsibly, in line with international civil-aviation safety practice and Nigeria’s regulatory framework.

Localised to Nigeria — the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) — while keeping ICAO, ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF practice accurate. It is for aviation safety, operations, engineering, security and compliance professionals who must oversee AI without compromising the sector’s hard-won safety culture.

AI Governance for Autonomous Vehicles is a six-week specialisation for practitioners who must govern AI that moves people and goods through real traffic. It treats the self-driving stack as a high-consequence, safety-critical system and asks the harder question certification slogans skip: when a machine decides whether to brake, swerve or proceed on a Nigerian road, who is accountable, what evidence exists, and how is that evidence kept honest over the system’s life? You will learn to govern autonomous and driver-assist systems across their lifecycle using ISO/IEC 42001 alongside the functional-safety and operational-safety standards (ISO 26262, ISO/PAS 21448 SOTIF, UL 4600), the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and the EU AI Act’s high-risk regime, grounded in the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and the realities of the FRSC, NITDA and the roads people actually drive.

For: transport and mobility risk managers, automotive and fleet safety engineers, AV programme leads, regulators and policy advisers, internal auditors and assurance specialists, and OEM or logistics compliance officers preparing autonomous and ADAS deployments for scrutiny.

AI Governance for Africa & Emerging Markets is a six-week specialisation for the people who must govern artificial intelligence where the textbooks were not written for them. It takes the international toolkit — ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act — and asks the harder question: how do you govern AI well in a country with thin connectivity, limited compute, a young data-protection regime, scarce specialist skills and a regulator still finding its feet? The answer is not to copy a European framework wholesale, nor to abandon standards as a luxury, but to adapt them to the realities of an emerging market without losing what makes them work.

The course is anchored in Nigeria — the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, the NDPC, NITDA and the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy — and set in the wider African frame of the African Union Continental AI Strategy, the Malabo Convention and Smart Africa. By the end you will be able to diagnose the governance constraints particular to emerging markets, develop a national or organisational AI policy that fits its context, govern public-sector and infrastructure realities honestly, and lead a programme that delivers economic value without importing harm.

For: Policy advisers and regulators, public-sector AI leads, development-agency programme staff, governance officers in banks, telcos and start-ups, and academics shaping AI strategy across Nigeria and the continent.

AI Assurance for LLMs is a six-week specialisation in the technical governance and assurance of Large Language Models — the chatbots, copilots and generative systems Nigerian organisations are now deploying at speed. It is hands-on and opinionated: you will learn how to detect hallucination, run prompt-injection and jailbreak tests, build evaluation and monitoring that survives contact with production, audit an LLM application against ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and stand up an enterprise LLM governance programme under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and a watching NDPC.

By the end you will be able to assure an LLM system end to end: design an evaluation suite, red-team it, monitor it live, and produce the evidence an auditor or regulator will ask for.

For: AI/ML engineers, MLOps and platform teams, risk and assurance professionals, internal auditors, data protection officers and product leads responsible for generative-AI systems in Nigerian banks, telcos, health providers, government and startups.