The Nigerian teens clueless on computers but aiming to reboot - BBC News

Many young Nigerians fail their university entrance exams as they lack very basic tech skills.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Chimezie AnekeBy Adaobi Tricia NwaubaniLetter from Africa series, NigeriaThe first time 18-year-old Christian Asogwa used a desktop computer was last April when he sat for the Nigerian university entrance exams.

He spent the first several minutes of the two-hour exam, taken at a centre in the south-eastern state of Enugu, struggling to find his way around the screen.

Before he could settle down to answer the multiple choice questions, which required him to click with a mouse - he was stumped.

"They asked us to put our name and registration number and I didn't know how to do it," he said.

"I asked the person sitting beside me and she showed me where to press the capital letters and all that."

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