Kelvin Bowoto
The NITDA boss made the call in Dutse, Jigawa State’s capital, during the launch of a capacity-building training program sponsored by the state government for 1000 youngsters in the state.
The training, which is being organized in collaboration with the Jigawa State government, the National Information Technology Agency (NITDA), Base University, and IDEAS through the Jigawa State Development Agency for Youth Empowerment and Employment, is critical to the state’s efforts to explore more economic opportunities for faster development.
While advising the country’s youth to embrace ICT skills for long-term development and self-sufficiency, the NITDA director stated that the world is transitioning from paper qualifications to skills, and those who want to achieve must embrace them to live.
He went on to say, “This training of the one thousand youths in Jigawa on skills in emerging technologies will enable the state to recover its lost glory as the leading state in the ICT sector of Nigeria in the early 2000s.”
According to the Director General, NITDA will continue to collaborate with state governments around the country to increase digital literacy for citizens’ exclusive use in accelerating the national digital economy to combat poverty and poverty-related difficulties in the country.”
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Inuwa emphasized the importance of the training, which was co-organized by the state government’s Agency for Youth Empowerment, NITDA, Base University, and IDEAS Hub, describing it as strategic to the state’s efforts to explore more economic opportunities for accelerated development.
Governor Umar Namadi, who was represented at the occasion by the state’s Deputy Governor, Aminu Usman Gumel, praised NITDA for its many intervention initiatives in the state, which span multiple sectors. He highlighted that they had helped the state achieve the current feat in less than a year in office.
Other speakers at the flag-off ceremony, including Dr. Habibu Ubale, Director General of the Jigawa State Agency for Youth Empowerment and Employment, and representatives from collaborating organizations, all agreed that providing ICT skills to youths in the state would promote long-term economic development.
The program, which focuses on five areas, including robotics, artificial intelligence, and software development, is expected to produce young people who will take the lead in tugging the string of digital development in the state and the country as a whole.
Techrectory with Agency Report.
