By Bashir Mohammed
Kano
The office of Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in collaboration with the Kano state government, has sponsored 7,000 youths to undergo a one-day training on digital skills.
The training, held at six centers in the state, was conducted by Google, through their vendor, Mind-the-Gap Foundation, under the theme “Diversifying the Nigerian Economy: Enabling Youth Through Digital Skills Training”.
Declaring the training open, Kano state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, said the pro¬gramme was designed to empower youths to become self-reliant and re¬alise their full potentials in a world driven by ICT.
“This programme, which is in collaboration with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, is part of our determination at re-invigorating the business environment which illustrates the strategic focus on this endeavour”, he said.
In addition, he stated that his administration was working with the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment for the implementation of the federal government’s Special Intervention Project, known as N-Power, aimed at creating job opportunities and wealth creation among our teeming unemployed youths.
“Part of the motive for or¬ganising the empowerment programme is to get rid of poverty, upgrade Kano youths for them to contend with their contemporaries from other climes. We hope that this will accord them the knowledge with which to shun anti societal vic¬es and engage themselves in meaning and productive ventures”, he stated.
The Senior Special Assis¬tant to President Buhari on SDG’s, Princess Adejoke Orelope Ad¬efulire, represented by Alhaji Waziri Laminu, disclosed that the programme was aimed at training over 125,000 Nigeria youth across the country, on digital skills, ranging from content creation, digital strategy, web design, social media to application development”, adding that Kano was allotted the highest number of 7,000 due to the strategic importance.
She, therefore, enjoined beneficiaries of the programme to take advantage of the training to establish a career in the digital space, boost their businesses online, and acquire new skills that will open up new job opportunities
