The Chief Executive Officer of Cybervilla Company, Ifeanyin Adirika, has called on Nigerian youths to embrace digital skills to combat unemployment and help build a better future for themselves.
Adirika made this call on Friday at Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, during the unveiling of the tech company’s Cyber Squad Initiative, which is devoted to raising at least 10,000 technology experts across the country within the next two years.
Speaking with journalists at the Ogun Tech Hub where the tech company, in partnership with Ogun State Government is training 50 youths in providing support, management and repair services for ICT gadgets like phones and laptops, Adirika said that the essence of the initiative is to provide the manpower that will help make Nigeria more visible as the technology hub centre in Africa.
He said, “We are here to launch cyber squad initiative to raise the next set of technology experts. The idea is to train and upscale the skills of young people to be able to provide support services for mobile phones, laptops and other ICT gadgets.
“As we all know that technology is taking centre stage in all walk of life, the world is going digital, there is Artificial Intelligence, there is a lot happening in digital economy space and the Nigerian youth must not be left behind, reason we are providing the requisite training and skills that could also make our youth to fit in into this emerging world of technology.
“The participants will be taken through 12 weeks of intense training for them to have the basics in supporting, managing and repairing these ICT gadgets. They will also be taught business incubation so that they can also know how to set up their technology business.”
He further said, “For the pilot scheme that we are starting in Ogun State, we have 50 participants , we have plans to increase it to 500 after the success of the pilot phase and the idea is that for every 12 weeks, we should be able to produce between 500 to 1000 people that have been sufficiently empowered with technology skills.
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