Efiwe, the offline-capable AI coding platform, is partnering with the Lagos State Government to introduce mobile-first coding education across five government senior secondary schools under Education District IV, reaching students in the city Efiwe calls home.
Efiwe and Lagos State’s Education District IV are launching a structured coding partnership across five pilot schools, running from August through December 2026. It marks Efiwe’s first formal partnership with a government education authority, and its largest direct engagement yet with Nigeria’s public school system, in the very city where the company started. This partnership with Education District IV is set to bring structured coding education into government classrooms, with the explicit goal of equipping students with coding skills, starting with a five-school rollout.
The partnership will run across five government senior secondary schools, one per month, from August through December 2026:
- New Era Girls Senior Secondary School — August
- Government Senior College — September
- Eric Moore Senior High School — October
- Itolo Girls Senior Secondary School — November
- Surulere Senior Secondary School — December
Each school will host at least thirty selected students, with sessions running from for at least two hours every week in the school’s computer lab or classroom. As with every Efiwe deployment, the platform requires no laptops and no data bundle once initial setup is complete, and the AI tutor guiding students through each challenge runs entirely on-device.
Why This Partnership Matters
Lagos is not an unfamiliar city to Efiwe’s approach. Just last month, June 2026, the company completed a successful pilot with hundreds of school students across the city through a Teach For Nigeria pilot, an eight-week structured coding programme across ten schools in Lagos and Ogun State. The partnership with Education District IV extends that track record directly into the public school system, in the same communities the company was built to serve, and for the first time brings a formal government partner into that work.
“Every partnership we build in Lagos teaches us something we carry into the next one,” said Precious Eboh, Co-founder and Chief Partnerships Officer of Efiwe. “Government schools carry real constraints; limited devices, limited time, limited budget. Efiwe was built for exactly that environment. A student doesn’t need a laptop or a data plan to sit down and write their first line of HTML. They just need a phone and two hours.”
Available courses for the partnership will draw from Efiwe’s core front-end curriculum; HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, giving students a foundation that starts with the structure of a webpage and builds toward full interactivity, all achievable within each school’s monthly window.
What Comes Next
The partnership runs school by school from August through December 2026, with Efiwe reporting back to Education District IV at its close. Depending on outcomes, this first formal government partnership could inform how coding education is introduced more broadly across Lagos State’s government secondary schools.
“We’re proud to partner with Education District IV on this,” said Chidi Nwaogu, Co-founder and CTO of Efiwe. “This is a chance to prove, in our own backyard, that a smartphone and two hours a week are enough to give a student in a Lagos public school the same starting point as anyone else learning to code, anywhere in the world.”
For Efiwe, securing this partnership marks another step in a broader mission: showing that structured, effective coding education doesn’t require computer labs, expensive devices, or reliable broadband; just the right platform, and the right partners, working together to reach the students who need it most.
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