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First Lady trains women in ICT

The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, is facilitating the training of 36 women in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) through her Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI).

The women were drawn from Nyanya, Galadimawa, Lugbe, Kubwa, Karu, Games Village, and the Central Area in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The one-week training, which opened yesterday, was organised by the RHI in collaboration with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the programme is ongoing at the Public Service Institute of Nigeria (PSIN) in Kubwa, Abuja.

Senator Tinubu, who was represented by her Senior Special Adviser on Policy and Strategy, Mr. Wahab Alawiye-King, advised the participants to utilise the training for their economic development.

The First Lady noted that the empowerment of women through digital literacy offers them a wide range of opportunities to fit in and thrive as functional members of the society.

According to her, participants will be given starter packs, which include a laptop and N75,000 cash, at the end of the programme to enable them practise what they had learnt.

Senator Tinubu said the training would also enable those already in business to project their businesses to the public while adding value to the society.

NITDA’s Director General Kashifu Abdullahi said the training was apt as the agency’s target was to achieve 95 per cent digital literacy in Nigeria by 2030.

Abdullahi, who was represented by the Director of Cooperate Planning and Strategy at NITDA, Dr. Aristotle Onumo, said the collaboration with RHI was aimed at having more women as ICT experts.