The Federal Government has actually applauded the commitment and commitment of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) towards improving digital abilities advancement among youths through application of numerous Information and Communication Technology skill acquisition programs.

Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, and the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, gave the commendation during the inauguration of a Digital Nigeria Centre (DNC), a project performed by the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), an arm of NCC, at the Ijesa Muslim Grammar School, Ilesa, Osun State recently.

Representing President Muhamadu Buhari at the event, Aregbesola commended the NCC for prompt and comprehensive implementation of the job, stating he was confident that the job will promote the connection of public secondary schools to broadband web in Ilesa neighborhood and eventually gear up beneficiaries with 21st century abilities.

“I want to thank my excellent pal and brother, the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, for assenting to our request to have the first of this remodeled job in Osun State sited in Ilesa. I will likewise like to thank the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta and the whole Management and personnel of NCC and the USPF, as well as their technical partners for a prompt and successful completion of this laudable project,” he said.

On the sideline of the commissioning, Aregbesola also revealed the establishment of President Muhammadu Buhari N100 million Technology Fund for Youth Empowerment, to push the emergence of world class technology specialists. The Minister of Interior stated that the Fund targets 2,000 youths in the next two years, who will be supplied with devices for training in different locations such as software development and style, among others.

The Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, who was represented by the State’s Commissioner for Innovation, Science and Technology, Dr. Babatunde Olawale, revealed the thankfulness of the State Government to the Federal Government, the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and the Nigerian Communications Commission, for initiative and especially for inaugurating the leader remodeled DNC project in Osun State. Oyetola also informed the passionate gathering that Osun State Government was ready and ready to collaborate with NCC to replicate the project in other parts of the State

Speaking in the exact same vein, Pantami, who was represented at the occasion by the Chairman, Board of Commissioners of NCC, Prof. Adeolu Akande, also applauded the NCC and USPF on the shipment of the DNC project on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He stated that the task and likewise set up ones were started by the federal government to provide expression to its vision to effectively digitise the country’s economy for increased success for all Nigerians.

Pantami specified that the Federal Government is concentrated on promoting the digital economy throughout the country and that this had actually informed the renaming of the Ministry of Communications to the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. On the heels of the re-christening, Pantami remembered that the Federal Government emplaced Digital Nigeria-oriented policies to enhance the focus of existing policies in order to accelerate the shipment of derivable benefits of digital economy to Nigerians, no matter their places and circumstances.

Extremely main amongst the policies is the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) 2020-2030, a 10-year, eight-pillar focused plan for actualising the Federal Government’s digital economy agenda unveiled in November, 2019.

Pantami asserted that the DNC inaugurated at Ilesa was a concrete application of the Digital Literacy and Skills, the second pillar of NDEPS.

According to Pantami, the overarching goal of the DNC job is to help with adoption of digital lifestyle in the schools in addition to in the school neighborhoods. The Minister averred that the project’s significance can not be under-estimated, considering its capability to improve digital skill for the youths and subsequently make them worldwide competitive.

Pantami said the Nigerian federal government is determined to arm the youths with digital skills, strong literacy and numeracy abilities, critical and innovative thinking skills, complex problem resolving aptitude, the ability to work together, and release socio-emotional abilities, which they require to transform their lives and develop the economy.

“We have actually already made a number of huge strides in the advancement of our digital economy culture and the deployment of initiatives such as the Digital Nigeria Centre eloquently shows the current administration’s dedication to connecting all Nigerians,” Pantami stated as he similarly revealed Federal Government’s dedication to its tripartite program of improving the economy, curbing corruption and improving national security through efficient release of ICT in all nooks and crannies of the country.

In his remark, Danbatta, who was represented at the occasion by the Commission’s Director of Projects, Iyabode Solanke, stated all the regulative activities, efforts and programmes that the Commission had actually carried out since 2019, in partnership with its vital stakeholders, including its arm, the USPF, have actually been targeted at providing concrete expression to Nigeria’s deliberate policy to move to a full digital economy.

He said the Commission achieves this by consistently devoting itself to growth of suitable facilities to enhance digital literacy and skills in view of the economic and social impact of digitization on all sectors.

The NCC Chief Executive reiterated the Commission’s dedication to the general goal of bridging the digital divide through the arrangement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as well as broadband access to the unserved and underserved institutions and communities in the country.

Previously, the Principal of Ijesa Muslim Grammar School, Ramota Ilesanmi, thanked the President Buhari-led Federal Government for the project, stating that it will go a long method in fulfilling the ICT needs of students and residents of the city.

The DNC, formerly called School Knowledge Centre (SKC), is among the tasks in the Access Programme structure of the USPF, conceptualized to promote the accessibility and utilisation of ICT and resources of the Internet in teaching and knowing in public schools in underserved, unserved and rural locations.

Specific goals of DNC are to increase ICT literacy among school instructors and trainees; supply a platform for accessing online educational resources; gear up students with ICT skills; facilitate ICT adoption in mentor and learning; in addition to boost pass rate in Mathematics, English language and other science subjects