Minister Wants Imo State To Produce Another Mark Zuckerberg As Uzodimma Trains 5000 Youths
- Governor Uzodimma has declared that life will be difficult for humankind today without technology
- The Imo state governor made this declaration at the graduation and empowerment of 5000 Imo Skill-Up youths
- Meanwhile, Minister of Communications & Digital Economy, Professor Isa Pantami, says he hoped that the state can produce another Zukerberg
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Technology, opportunity and people" are critical for human existence in the 21st Century. This is according to the Governor Hope Uzodimma at the graduation and empowerment of 5000 Imo Skill-Up youths at Landmark Event Center.
While congratulating the youths, Governor Hope Uzodimma expressed joy at the excitement that welcomed the Skill-Up Program by Imo youths.
The governor in his address stated that more of these engaging programs will help to eradicate banditry and insecurity in the State as more youths will be gainfully engaged, Legit.ng reports.
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The governor charged the youths to take full advantage of the opportunities offered through digital skills training and other programs of the Government to establish
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On his part the Minister of Communications & Digital Economy, Professor Isa Pantami stated that the Skill-Up Program is a shift from creating job employees to producing job employers.
He further encouraged Ndi Imo to leverage the era of the digital revolution to build a knowledge-based economy like the USA, China and Japan whose economies are driven by Digital innovation and Economy than by natural resources.
According to the minister, "this is by prioritizing soft and hard skills".
He commended the Governor stating that Governor Hope Uzodimma deserves the adjective, "The Digital Governor".
He challenged Imo Youths to invest in critical thinking and take advantage of the program for the emergence of another Mark Zuckerberg from Imo State.
Speaking earlier, the Commissioner for Digital Economy and E-Government, Dr Chimezie Amadi, disclosed that the Skill-Up Imo Project is one of the strategic initiatives of Governor Hope Uzodimma, specially designed to provide free training and support to 100,000 Imolites, particularly the youths in new innovative, and industry 4.0 skills-set.
Presidency: Imo state First Lady says southeast women will vote for Tinubu
In another report, Imo state First Lady Barr Chioma Uzodimma has called on southeast women to support the "Renewed Hope" project of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by voting Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for president in the forthcoming presidential election.
Mrs Uzodimma, the southeast coordinator of the APC Women Presidential Campaign Council, stated this recently while addressing a group of Imo state women in Owerri.
She cited the numerous achievements of the APC, both at the state and federal levels, as evidence of good governance. The First Lady further appealed to the women to support the consolidation project of President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government.
Source: Legit.ng
