Afrigather The previous Government Secretary of the Nationwide Universities Fee, Prof. Peter Okebukola, has recognized expertise as one of many main key drivers of financial progress for any nation.
Okebukola famous that the digital atmosphere has grow to be a porous platform, therefore the necessity to equip the youthful technology with the required abilities wanted to outlive within the digital age.
He stated this at a coaching programme organised for scores of secondary faculty college students in Ogun State by the United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Organisation by means of its Institute for African Tradition and Worldwide Understanding.
The occasion which was held on the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, had contributors outfitted with digital abilities, which, in line with the institute is not going to solely allow them to manage within the digital atmosphere but in addition equally allow them to contribute to the prosperity of the nation.
Okebukola who doubles because the Director of the Institute expressed that it’s saddening that younger individuals have restricted entry to the digital instruments wanted to navigate the digital atmosphere.
Reeling out the rationale behind the programme, he defined that the most important purpose of the digital ability coaching was to carry collectively younger Africans with a view to equipping them with the data and abilities they will utilise with a view to promote and defend the variety of their cultural expressions within the digital atmosphere.
Okebukola stated, “It’s common data that expertise is likely one of the main key drivers of financial progress of all international locations and areas. Additionally it is a truism that younger individuals have restricted entry to the digital instruments wanted to navigate the digital atmosphere.
“These instruments are of grave significance to them as it’s the solely means by means of which they will have entry to be taught digital abilities that won’t solely permit them to operate within the digital atmosphere but in addition final them a lifetime.”
One of many organisers, Oluwafeyikemi Osunfisan in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the programme, known as on each the state and federal governments to supply the youth with the required abilities wanted to entry the digital atmosphere.
She famous, “this concept will assist the Nigerian economic system as a result of it’s a person with entry to all instruments and abilities obtainable throughout the digital atmosphere that may develop their incomes capability, can contribute to the expansion and improvement of the nation by means of fee of taxes, fee of primary payments, generate overseas income, encourage overseas funding to the nation and so many extra numerous alternatives.
“We’re calling on the federal government to do the needful and guarantee that there’s provision for creatives to have digital instruments, to afford them the chance to be taught digital abilities that may allow them to manage within the digital atmosphere, promote their cultural items and companies, increase their data base, generate extra income and contribute to the general progress of the nation.”
