By Correspondent in Abuja.
Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta.
Executive Vice Chairman/GEO, NCC.
The Nigerian Communication Commission, (NCC) says it is fully committed to the effective and efficient implementation of the Federal Government’s policy direction in repositioning the youth for the digital era job opportunities.
This it says is in line with one of the pillars of the National Digital Economic Policy and Strategy, (NDEPS 2020-2030), meant to further accelerate economic growth in digital literacy and skills, the Nigerian Communications.
The Executive Vice Chairman/GEO of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta,in a statement he signed in Abuja, said the commitment would be achievedt hrough a programme tagged, Digital Job Creation for Youths (DJCY).
He disclosed that over 2,000 Nigerian youths had so far benefited from the programme from the Six Geo-political Zones of the country, adding that the ongoing edition had 600 youths being trained.
The NCC boss further said:"The DJCY programme is designed to enhance the skills of youths across all the Six (6) Geopolitical Zones of Nigeria through customised training and offer of fully-loaded laptop computers with networking devices to euip them for the purposes of engaging in different digital entrepreneurship businesses that they may chose.
"The beneficiaries are provided with free accommodation facilities for two weeks during which resource persons in digital skills, business development and management, are engaged to retool them with their laptops to re-orientate them towards self-discovery, self-development, and self-employment."
He added that some of the objectives of the DJCY include to remould youths with other skills with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) proficiency to fit into the digital economy and strengthen technical and scientific competences among the youths to create opportunities for self-employment.
Danbatta further explained that the programme was also designed to improve access to ICT-enabled services such as banking, and strengthen the ICT micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector of the nation's economy.
"The DJCY relies on the provisions of NDEPS 2020-2030, which encourage the promotion of Digital Literacy and Skills through “massive training of Nigerians from all walks of life in order to enable them to obtain digital literacy and other digital skills.
"He expressed delight that hundreds of the participants in the previous two editions had reported gainful self-employments, using the laptops and Internet connectivity tools provided by the Commission.
"It is gratifying to note that the Commission has, through the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Ali Ibrahim Pantami, received the commendations of the Federal Government for the way and manner it had efficiently and effectively designed and implemented this programme for the benefit of the Nigerian youths.
"The Commission restates its full commitment to this programme as a result of the positive feedbacks from the previous editions and the potential it has in enhancing the digital opportunities of the Nigerian youth for the benefit of the nation’s digital economy," he said
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
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