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Live cohorts taught by people who do this for a living. Projects that become a portfolio you can show an employer. And an internship placement at the end, so you finish with experience instead of just a certificate.
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Full scholarships, student placements, short intensives and corporate work. Taught by 30+ mentors and trainers who do this for a living, with 500+ graduates behind us.
Sit the aptitude test, win up to 100% off your commitment fee, and train for seven weeks with mentors who do this for a living.
Programmes
Every programme runs live with a trainer who does this for a living. You leave with projects, a certificate, and a placement for your internship.
Development & ProgrammingIn-Person · Online / beginner
6 monthsBackend Development with Python is a full programme that takes you from your first line of Python to a backend service running in production. The complete backend programme, in Python. It continues from Backend Development with Python Foundations into advanced API design, asynchronous work, caching, testing and deployment, and finishes with a production service of your own. What you'll learn Write Python confidently and model data properly in SQL Build production-grade REST APIs with FastAPI and Pydantic Secure an API: authentication, authorisation and the common attacks Design APIs that survive versioning, paging and real traffic Run work in the background and handle jobs that outlive a request Cache, profile and scale a service that is getting slower Test a backend properly, including the database Deploy, monitor and operate a Python service in production How it's delivered Taught live with a mentor, module by module, with exercises after each. The programme ends with a capstone project you build and present. Submit every exercise and your capstone through your workspace.
Starts 12 Oct 2026 • 6 months
₦250,000
Development & ProgrammingIn-Person · Online / beginner
6 monthsAI Automation is a full programme that takes you from your first automated workflow to production automations a business depends on — without writing code. The complete AI Automation programme, and deliberately a no-code one. It continues straight on from AI Automation Foundations into advanced workflows, business-system integration, guardrails and running automations in production. Anyone who wants to build automations in code should take AI Engineering: The Developer’s Path instead. What you'll learn Automate real business processes end to end, with no programming Build advanced workflows in n8n and Make, including multi-step agents Connect the systems a business actually runs on — CRM, ERP, email, sheets Ground automations in a company’s own documents and knowledge Put evaluation, guardrails and human review around AI decisions Handle security, privacy and compliance for automated work Run automations in production: cost, monitoring and reliability How it's delivered Taught live with a mentor, module by module, with exercises after each. The programme ends with a capstone project you build and present. Submit every exercise and your capstone through your workspace.
Starts 12 Oct 2026 • 6 months
₦300,000
Development & ProgrammingIn-Person · Online / beginner
6 monthsMobile App Development with React Native is a full programme that takes you from your first web page to a mobile app published on the App Store and Play Store. A complete mobile development programme. You cover the whole frontend path first — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the DOM and React — then move into React Native and Expo, and finish having shipped a real app to both stores. What you'll learn Build for the web with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React before going mobile Build cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android from one codebase Structure an app with navigation, shared state and a sensible file layout Use the device itself — camera, location, notifications and local storage Work with APIs and keep an app usable when the network is not Sign users in and store credentials the way a mobile app should Test and debug on simulators and real devices Build, sign and publish a release to the App Store and Play Store How it's delivered Taught live with a mentor, module by module, with exercises after each. The programme ends with a capstone project you build and present. Submit every exercise and your capstone through your workspace.
Starts 12 Oct 2026 • 6 months
₦250,000
Development & ProgrammingOnline / beginner
8 weeksAI Automation Foundations is a eight-week, build-first program for automating real business processes with AI. Put AI to work on the jobs your team does by hand. AI Automation Foundations teaches you to map a manual process, wire the tools together, and ship automations that run without you — no programming background required. What you'll learn Judge which manual processes are worth automating, and which are not Write prompts that produce reliable, structured output Build multi-step workflows with triggers, branching and error handling Connect systems together using APIs, webhooks and shared data Stand up an assistant that answers from your own documents Run an AI agent with a human approving the consequential steps Automate one real business process end to end and hand it over How it's delivered Weekday lessons are on-demand (Monday–Thursday); live sessions on Friday and Saturday apply each week's topic with a mentor. The course ends with a capstone project. Submit every exercise and your capstone through your workspace.
Starts 28 Sept 2026 • 8 weeks
Development & ProgrammingOnline / beginner
8 weeksBackend Development with Python Foundations is a eight-week, build-first program covering Python, databases and production APIs. Build and ship the server side. Backend Development with Python Foundations starts with Python from scratch, moves through database design and SQL, then into production REST APIs with FastAPI — ending with a deployed API you built yourself. What you'll learn Track your work with Git and GitHub Write Python using core syntax, data structures, and functions Design a relational database and query it with SQL Build REST APIs with FastAPI and Pydantic Secure an API with JWT and OAuth2 authentication Test an API with pytest and document it with OpenAPI Deploy a working API and demo it How it's delivered Weekday lessons are on-demand (Monday–Thursday); live sessions on Friday and Saturday apply each week's topic with a mentor. The course ends with a capstone project. Submit every exercise and your capstone through your workspace.
Starts 28 Sept 2026 • 8 weeks
DesignOnline / beginner
8 weeksProduct Design Foundations is a eight-week, hands-on introduction to designing digital products people actually want to use. You'll learn the full process — from understanding users to shipping polished, prototyped screens — and finish with a case study that anchors your portfolio. What you'll learn Apply the design-thinking process to frame and solve a real user problem Conduct user and competitive research and turn it into personas and insights Structure information architecture and map user flows Create wireframes and low-fidelity mockups in Figma Design high-fidelity, responsive screens using a design system Build an interactive prototype from your designs Produce a portfolio-ready case study that documents your process How it's delivered Weekday lessons are on-demand (Monday–Thursday); live sessions on Friday and Saturday apply each week's topic with a mentor. The course ends with a capstone project. Submit every exercise and your capstone through your workspace.
Starts 12 Oct 2026 • 8 weeks
How it works
Most academies stop at the certificate. Ours is a three-part sequence, and the last part is the one that gets you hired.
7-week scholarship cohort
Live classes with over 30 mentors and trainers working in the field. You write code, get it reviewed, and fix it the same week.
Certificate on completion
Every module ends in something real. You finish with projects an employer can open, not a folder of exercises.
Post-training placement
We place you with a team after training, so your first line on a CV is work you were paid to think about.
Same trainers and same syllabus in all three.
Training a team instead? Talk to us about corporate training.
Why SmartHub
More than 500 people have finished a programme with us. What they needed was not another video library — it was mentors who answer, work they could show an employer, and somewhere to walk into afterwards.
Our mentors and trainers teach the thing they spend the rest of the week doing. You pick up how they actually work — the shortcuts, the checks, the bits a recorded course leaves out.
30+ mentors and trainers
Each cohort moves from fundamentals to finished work in a set sequence. Nothing is set as an exercise before you have been taught how to do it, so you are never quietly left behind.
7 to 24-week cohorts
You earn a certificate on completion, but the part that gets you interviews is the set of projects behind it. We mark the work, you rebuild it, and it goes into your portfolio.
Certificate on completion
After training we place you in an internship, so the first line on your CV is real work with a real team rather than a course title. Students on SIWES or IT can do their placement with us too.
Post-training internship placement
Who we are
SmartHub Academy is the training arm of Smartech Global. We teach people into technical careers with live classes, real projects, and mentors who still do the work for a living.
Our cohorts run live online, so you can join from anywhere with a connection — and in person for those who can reach our classrooms. Same trainers, same syllabus, either way.
Free to attend, free to read
Sit in on a live webinar, or read what our trainers write between cohorts. Same people, same material — you just get to try it first.
13 September 20262 speakers
This is a session that teaches how to avoid burnout and staying consistent in tech journey.
2 August 20261 speaker
This was Day 2 of Smarthub Academy's "Beyond the Click" cybersecurity webinar, held August 2, 2026. Where Day 1 covered the theory of how cyber criminals operate, Day 2 moved into live demonstration — showing attendees exactly how a phishing attack is carried out from start to finish. Justina Augustus opened with the agenda and ground rules, and Emmanuel Uwa recapped the previous session before diving into the main content. He began by defining digital identity — a person's full online presence across email, social media, phone numbers, and photos — and stressed that an email account is the "master key" that can be used to reset passwords and compromise every linked account, potentially leading to financial theft. The centerpiece was a live phishing simulation using a tool called GoFish against a mock target ("Smart Global"). Emmanuel built a fake login page, generated a convincing HTML verification email disguised as an IT service desk request, launched the campaign using a temporary email identity, and captured the submitted credentials in real time. He showed how attackers immediately redirect victims to the legitimate site so the compromise goes unnoticed, and how they later analyze captured data like timestamps, operating system, and browser. He then covered the broader threat landscape: romance scams and market fraud built on stolen identities, the dangers of oversharing daily activities online, and Multi-Factor Authentication as an essential defense layer. Importantly, he explained MFA's limits — tools like Evilginx use man-in-the-middle techniques to steal active session tokens rather than passwords, bypassing MFA entirely. On ethics, Emmanuel declined a request to demonstrate Evilginx live, explaining that advanced exploitation tools are reserved for trained students and that the academy prioritizes ethical, professional responsibility over teaching offensive techniques. The session closed with core best practices — strong unique passwords, MFA, careful URL and link verification, keeping software updated, and above all never clicking a link you're not fully sure about.
1 August 20261 speaker
This was Day 1 of a two-day Smarthub Academy cybersecurity webinar titled "Beyond the Click," held on August 1, 2026, focused on how cyber criminals steal passwords, money, and trust. Justina Augustus moderated the session (with coaching from Edison Sime), opening with announcements about current cohorts, the scholarship scheme, and a new course starting October 12th. The main content was delivered by Emmanuel Uwa, a security engineer at Matup Academy, who walked participants through the landscape of modern cyber threats. He explained that cyber crime today operates like an organized business rather than the work of lone hackers, then covered the major attack methods: phishing (fake messages impersonating trusted entities), malware, vishing (phone-based scams), fake copycat websites, data breaches (using the 2013 Yahoo breach of 3 billion accounts as a case study), and social engineering — which he emphasized as the most dangerous tactic because it manipulates human emotions rather than attacking systems directly. He illustrated these with real examples, including the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, a pizza-themed phishing test his team ran on a client company, and his own near-miss with a fake scholarship scam on Instagram. The session closed with practical defenses: avoiding predictable and reused passwords, being wary of open public Wi-Fi, spotting phishing red flags like false urgency and requests for sensitive details (PINs, BVN, NIN), carefully checking URLs for subtle misspellings, understanding that the HTTPS padlock doesn't guarantee legitimacy, and adopting password managers and multi-factor authentication as the primary lines of defense. Day 2 will feature a live simulated phishing attack in a safe lab environment, and attendees were encouraged to enable MFA, disable auto-connect to open Wi-Fi, join the community group chat, and invite friends to the next session.
Short reads on the tools, the hiring market, and what actually gets a beginner their first role.
Read the blog
24 May 2026Career & InsightsSmith George
Drawn from conversations with engineering leads at Port Harcourt product companies — what actually moves an entry-level CV from "no" to "interview."
3 May 2026Career & InsightsSmith George
The patterns that cost junior developers job offers — and the small behavioural fixes that turn the same skill level into more accepted offers.
18 Apr 2026Career & InsightsSmith George
Most tech-student LinkedIn profiles in Nigeria are doing the wrong things well. What recruiters actually look at, and how to fix the most common failures.
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Live training over seven to twenty-four weeks depending on the programme, a portfolio at the end of it, and an internship placement after that. Early bird pricing for the 2026-1 Tech Bootcamp runs from ₦100,000 to ₦220,000.
