From drones to teaching in UK school, meet the Nigerian kids challenging the status quo with their acumen

Emmanuella Mayaki

While most kids of her age are schooling, Emmanuella Mayaki, just 10, is already earning a living working as a teacher at an after-school club in England.

Unlike the usual routine of searching and applying for a job, Mayaki was offered a teaching job at Southfields Primary School, Coventry, England. 

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The young tech genius got appointed to teach after she was discovered to be computer proficient.

Mayaki was born on January 7, 2009. Her drive into the world of ICT commenced when she was just 7 years old. Two years on, she obtained a diploma in Desktop Publishing, Advanced Excel, Adobe Page Maker, Advanced PowerPoint and CorelDraw in 2016.

In 2018, she enrolled to study Web Development and Graphic Design at NIIT and also enrolled for Mobile App Development at Tech24. She later developed her personal mobile app and designed and hosted her own website, known as Emma’s ICT Academy.

She is knowledgeable in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, WordPress, PHP, MySQL, Graphic Design, Java and Python.

At Southfields Primary School, Coventry, England, Mayaki will be teaching other kids her age at a code club. One of the instructors at the school, Martin Benbeidge, said Mayaki is not only the school’s star but has superior skill and passion for sharing knowledge, Vanguard reported.