The Learner

Muhsin Ibrahim @muhsin234 The trending entrepreneurial business in Kano used to be the so-called Computer Learning Centres a few years back. There is, nonetheless, a remarkable shift today toward the so-called English Academy, English Learning Centre, or other variants. I am not entirely against the idea, but I am not happy with the vogue for some solid reasons. If you can remember, at the noon time of computer centres in the state, many a time a student would obtain a certificate, a diploma, or even an advanced diploma in computer without knowing, or knowing very little about, how to use simple applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, and other elementary computer applications. The business was hijacked and stalled by quacks.  The quacks plunged and polluted computer learning centres to make one thing: quick money. In no time, many people realised they had been primarily, if indirectly, duped. They stopped their patronage. Nowadays, several people are self-taught compu...