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Anthony Nwakaegho/DigitalSENSE Business News
The Kwara
State Government in collaboration with Stanbic IBTC have trained some 300
youths on usage of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and
specifically on mobile money.
The youths were selected from the three senatorial
districts for a five-day training exercise.
The training, which is put
together by the Kwara State Government in partnership with Stanbic IBTC bank,
is being held at the Computer Based Test (CBT) of the University of Ilorin.
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji
Abdulfatah Ahmed, DigitalSENSE
Business News gathered was represented by the State Commissioner for Youths
and Sport, Hajia Ramat Adesina Abaya flagged off the training at the
University of Ilorin Main Auditorium.
“The training is an approach to
empower the youth to gain computer literacy skills and to be engaged as the
business of mobile money agents on Stanbic IBTC platform in line with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) cashless
policy,” she said.
Also gathered by DigitalSENSE Business News is that
the beneficiaries of the scheme who excel in the computer literacy skills
assessment exams will be registered with the bank to act as mobile bankers in
their villages or communities where accesses to bank service are limited.
In his welcome address, the
Special Assistant to the Governor on Youth Empowerment, Alhaji Sakariyahu
Babatunde said that everything in this modern world revolves around the
Information Communication Technology.
Hon. Adamu Ibrahim Sabi,
Chairman, Kwara State House of Assembly Committee on Sport and Youth
Development applauded the gesture of the state government and the steps taken
by the Special Assistant to the Governor on Youth Empowerment to engage the
Kwara youths to become ICT literates.
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