By Dara Ojomo
Nigerian developers have created AI-powered tools designed to tackle challenges in education and lifelong learning, following a collaboration between Andela, OpenAI and Miva Open University.
The solutions were showcased Wednesday at the Lagos Civic Centre during “Codex in Action: Engineering the Future of Learning with AI, powered by OpenAI Academy,” an event held on the sidelines of TechCabal Moonshot 2026.
The project paired 100 developers from Miva Open University with 100 senior engineers from Andela. The Miva developers were first trained to use OpenAI Codex, then spent three weeks working alongside the Andela engineers to build tools for education and lifelong learning, according to a statement issued Thursday.
One of the platforms lets teachers turn recorded lessons into personalised study materials. A single recording becomes multiple versions tailored to each student’s needs and learning history, effectively giving learners a second shot at a lesson. With the teacher’s approval, students can download lessons for offline use, get alternative explanations or activities when they struggle, and resume where they stopped. When online, they can also use a voice tutor powered by OpenAI, with their progress synced back to the teacher.
One participant, Egwurube, said the Codex training transformed how he works, adding that it gave him both technical skills and hands-on experience building solutions to real problems.
Kate Woska, Andela’s Vice President for Africa, Middle East and Impact Partnerships, said the outcome shows what effective AI adoption looks like: developers learning through practice, then applying those skills to real challenges. She said pairing Codex with the guidance of Andela’s senior engineers helps developers move past experimentation and deliver working solutions.
The statement also noted that a wider group of 200 developers improved their assessed proficiency by 36 percentage points over their baseline after two weeks of applied learning.
The initiative is part of the Codex Champions Series, a pan-African programme highlighting how developers can use AI coding tools to build practical solutions. Lagos hosted the second edition, after Nairobi, and Cape Town will host the next on November 15.
