If you missed TechOff’s Ibadan activation, you missed more than an event. It was a practical demonstration of what happens when emerging tech talents are given a platform to be seen, heard, celebrated, and empowered to build.
From games and music to mentorship, networking, dance, and the Builders’ Premiere, the University of Ibadan became the first stop in TechOff’s multi-city campus tour built around one simple idea: Everybody Can Build.
The TechOff experience in the premier university was deliberately designed to meet young people where they are, not in a boardroom or behind a corporate podium, but in their own environment, on their own terms.
We have a huge number of young people in Nigeria and across Africa with ideas, technical skills, creative instincts, and an increasing ability to solve problems with technology. What is often missing is the platform that connects that talent to the attention, opportunities, and communities that can take their potential further.
This is the gap TechOff and Bitoshi are bridging through a technology reality show that spotlights, amplifies, and empowers emerging tech talent across Africa to boost the continent’s digital economy.
TechOff Premieres Episode One of Builders’ Series
Another key moment that made the Ibadan activation unforgettable is the Builders’ first episode premiere that held the participants completely inspired. Sometimes, before a person can imagine themselves as a builder, they need to see another person building. They need to see the imperfect beginnings, the experimentation, and the eventual outcome. They need evidence that the distance between having an idea and doing something about it is not as impossible as it may appear.
TechOff’s 2026 ‘Everybody Can Build’ initiative is more than writing code. It invites a developer to create a product, a designer to rethink an experience, a creator to use technology in a new way, a product thinker to identify an overlooked problem, and a young person who sees something broken and believes there must be a better way.
The Ibadan activation therefore represented more than a campus stop. It expressed a broader approach to developing Nigeria’s emerging technology ecosystem: spotlighting talent, amplifying what they are building, and creating opportunities for them to go further.
