graduates reported across Cohorts 1–5
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Impact stories · Lagos
Creative opportunity in motion.
In Lagos, TAFTA works through learning centres, public institutions and youth-focused partnerships to take practical creative education into communities.
The state story
Skills, access and opportunity—closer to home.
TAFTA’s Lagos programme connects online learning to physical support, practical training and community mobilisation. The Learning Train has moved through universities, NYSC networks, government institutions, schools and non-governmental organisations.
That local network helps learners move from access to action: finding a place to practise, meeting facilitators, building confidence and collaborating on real creative projects.
trainings delivered in the reported programme year
people trained during Cohort 5 alone
Figures reflect TAFTA’s published Lagos programme review for Cohorts 1–5 and its reported training activity at that time.
Read the original TAFTA report
Current programme leadership
Chinedu Isagbah
Programme Manager · Lagos ChapterThe state programme manager oversees TAFTA’s training and learning activities in Lagos, identifies challenges that may affect delivery and provides regular progress updates to programme stakeholders and partners.
What changed
Progress people can feel.
TAFTA combines digital learning with practical training, community outreach and partnerships that connect skills to real opportunity.
Public-sector reach
A full NYSC SAED partnership and collaboration with the Lagos Ministry of Youth widened mobilisation and opened training spaces across the state.
Learning through practice
Physical sessions at LASUED and practical centres connected digital course content to sound, stage-lighting and production experience.
Original creative work
The TAFTA Action Learning Project brought different Lagos training groups together around seven original monologues.
More inclusive access
Safeguarding support and collaboration with Project Enable Africa helped extend training to learners who face additional barriers.
Inside the programme
How the state model works.
The original state report records the locations, participant support and partner network behind the headline numbers.
Centres and practical venues
The report records the Yaba centre at No. 4 Thorbourn Avenue, Sabo Yaba; Igando Theatre in Alimosho; a sound-practical venue on Oritshe Street, Ikeja; and a stage-lighting practical venue on Anibaba Street, Ketu.
Movement of the Learning Train
The Lagos Learning Train began with LASU, expanded through government institutions and NYSC, then returned to schools and non-governmental organisations through local partnerships.
Learner welfare and safeguarding
TAFTA reported dedicated gender and safeguarding personnel for participants, alongside pathways to low-interest support for learners completing the programme.
Partners recorded in the report
Progress is a shared effort.
NYSC Lagos SAEDLagos Ministry of Youth and Social DevelopmentLagos State University of EducationProject Enable Africa
Where the learning travels
A network built around learners.
YabaIjanikinAlimoshoIkejaKetuIdi ArabaIsheriSurulere
How support works
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Community and partner mobilisation brings the Learning Train to young people where they already gather.
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Supported centres and practical venues provide equipment, connectivity and face-to-face guidance.
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Project work, industry exposure and safeguarding help learners complete the journey with confidence.
From the archive
The work, in pictures.
Original photographs from TAFTA’s published Lagos state report.
Story in focus · NYSC Surulere
Turning service into a new creative pathway.
At a two-day Learning Train programme for corps members in Surulere, participants explored arts and entrepreneurship through interactive sessions and practical guidance—building strategies for creative work and sustainable business growth.
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