Every week, another accelerator announces a new cohort. Another NGO publishes a report on the digital skills gap. Another multinational hosts a bootcamp in Lagos or Abuja, training three hundred young Nigerians to "leverage AI for economic transformation." The photographs are always the same: bright faces, laptops open, a facilitator gesturing at a slide deck bearing the logo of a Silicon Valley sponsor. Everyone claps. Everyone posts. Everyone moves on.
And yet, if you walk into the average Nigerian SME, and ask the owner whether they have
