The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State through the Enugu Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Centre has initiated a 7-month program on Cyber Security Learning for youths of the state.

A declaration by the Special Adviser to the Governor on SMEs Development and Director General, Enugu SMEs Centre, Hon. Arinze Chilo-Offiah, stated the centre is partnering with CyberSafe Foundation and Ping CyberTalent to arrange the program.

Hon. Chilo-Offiah divulged that the ICT-driven effort is championed by Gov. Ugwuanyi to help deal with the problems of cybercrime and youth unemployment in the state.

Recall that Gov. Ugwuanyi’s administration through the Enugu SMEs Centre recently trained extra 500 youths in Programming and Product Design, and has actually commenced the processes for training another set of 500 young people as part of its collective efforts to develop job opportunity for about 5,000 youths in the state in different fields of innovative endeavor.

According to the statement, Hon. Chilo-Offiah pointed out that the youth can make more money as Cyber Security professionals contrary to the belief of a lot of them that internet fraud popularly called “Yahoo Yahoo” is the quickest and easiest method to get abundant.

Revealing that “there are 3.5 million unfilled Cyber security jobs worldwide”, the Special Adviser specified that participants of the Enugu SMEs programme will end up being qualified Cyber Security specialists at the end of the training and will stand the opportunity of getting internship chances within and outside Nigeria.

Enugu SMEs boss preserved “candidates must be within 18-30 years, interested in pursuing a career in Tech, homeowner in Enugu and willing to commit to the full period of the training”.

He, therefore, asked certified and interested candidates to apply via: http://enugusme.en.gov.ng/ecsl.

“For more asks kindly get in touch with Enugu SMEs Center through listed below address: No. 2a, Market Garden Avenue, Opposite Ebeano Tunnel Roundabout, GRA, Enugu. Phone number: 08089344768; 08084998224; 09042439495; 09013484336; 07018098225. Email: [email secured] Social Media Handle: @EnuguSMEAgency on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. @Enugu State SME Agency on Facebook”, he said.