Nigeria’s tech push to unlock jobs for disabled talents

Nigeria’s inclusive career fair has thrust technology into the spotlight as a lever to crack open employment for persons with disabilities, a group long sidelined in one of Africa’s biggest economies.

BlakSkill, a Lagos-based talent firm, partnered with Sightsavers—a 70-year-old non-governmental organisation advocating disability rights—to host an event showcasing a cadre of Cisco-trained PWDs ready to reshape the workplace. Cisco is a…