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Our story

We built Primo because we know what the capability gap feels like.

Primo Academy was created from a real enterprise technology environment not from a theory of what the industry might need. Bluechip saw the gap between the speed of technology transformation and the availability of people ready to deliver it. Primo grew as a practical response: build capability from experience, make learning relevant to real work, and keep learning connected to how enterprises actually use technology.

The Problem we Faced

Technology was moving. Talent had to move with it.

Modern enterprises are changing rapidly. Roles evolve, platforms change, specialist skills are difficult to find, and valuable enterprise knowledge can sit with too few people. Universities and conventional curricula cannot always update at the same pace.

The result is a capability gap: organisations invest in technology, but still need people who can translate that technology into reliable business outcomes.

So we built technical proficiency from the work itself

Primo’s model is rooted in enterprise experience. The knowledge that practitioners gain from building platforms, engineering data environments, working with AI, securing infrastructure and solving customer problems becomes part of the learning experience. The aim is not simply to explain what a technology is. It is to help people understand how it is applied, governed, integrated and used to create value.

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  • What Bluechip does

    Builds intelligent enterprise solutions

  • What Primo does Primo Academy

    Practical programs grounded in current enterprise technologies and architectures

Our faculty

Meet the people behind the learning

  • Portrait of Abass Gbadeyanka

    Abass Gbadeyanka (BSc. MBA)

    Faculty of Software Engineering

  • Portrait of Olawale Alao

    Olawale Alao (Bsc. Msc.)

    Faculty of Data

  • Portrait of Oyindamola Kolawole

    Oyindamola Kolawole (BSc., Msc.)

    Faculty of IT Management

  • Portrait of Vangelis Oden

    Vangelis Oden (Msc.)

    Faculty of Artificial Intelligence

  • Portrait of Alex Okoh

    Alex Okoh (Bsc. PGD)

    Faculty of Infrastructure

Primo’s faculty brings together senior professionals from Bluechip Technologies who work across technical and business disciplines. Their experience helps connect the concepts taught in our programs to the systems, platforms and challenges organisations encounter in practice.

Every training company has instructors. Primo Academy has practitioners.

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The people behind Primo include enterprise architects, data and AI specialists, cloud and cyber experts, transformation leaders and other professionals working across enterprise technology delivery. They bring context that cannot be captured by a syllabus alone: why a design choice matters, what breaks in production, how teams work together, where governance enters the picture, and what it takes to move from concept to value.

Built inside a Pan-African enterprise technology company.

Primo’s enterprise connection is part of its learning advantage. Bluechip brings enterprise delivery experience, multi-country operations, strategic technology partnerships, complex and regulated environments, real architectures and business challenges, and a growing community of practitioners.

  1. Real projects
  2. Real experience
  3. Relevant capability

The goal is not simply to earn another certificate. The goal is to become valuable

We started with a problem we understood from experience. We built a way of developing people around the realities of enterprise technology. Now we are opening that experience to individuals and organisations that need to develop business-critical tech skills for what comes next.

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