FG to provide enabling environment for youths to thrive digitally
The Federal Government has assured that it would provide an enabling environment for the youths to thrive digitally in the country.
Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, represented by Mrs Moni Udoh, the Director, Information Communication and Technology (ICT) of the ministry said this during the media briefing organised by Google to mark the Digital Skills for Africa to reach one million people, tagged: Digital Million Milestone, adding that government sees the ICT as a platform that it would leverage upon to develop the human capacity.
He affirmed that the impact the training will have on the youth will be enormous, hence government decided to key into the Google training. “There is need for proper policy and guideline that will make way for an enabling environment for the youths to thrive digitally,” he said.
Nigeria, he said had a good productive age group and their energy should be harnessed, which Google could make globally competitive.
Mr Smart Akande, the Legal Adviser, Office of Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) said that one of the goals of government was to remove poverty in the country and Google Digital Skills training was an avenue to do so.
“When the economy is not growing, poverty thrives and the bulk of people that will be affected are the youths and our major concern is graduates that do not have access to digital skills. Today, we are saying recession is everywhere, it is the aggregate of all efforts will bring the country out of recession,’’ he said.
He explained that in the nearest future with this kind of skills training, Nigeria would be transformed to be better informed to compete at international level and the economy will be better.
