RLG, OYESTEC pass out 5,000 youths in ICT initiative

Anthony Nwakaegho/ DigitalSENSE Business News

The partnership agreement between RLG Communications Nigeria Ltd and the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme Technology (OYESTEC) has paid off as it graduates 5,000 youths after the successful completion of their training in Information Communication Technology, Mobile phone and computer repairs and assembling in the Nigerian state of Osun state, Osogbo.

DigitalSENSE Business News gathered partnership agreement which is to make the youth economically resourceful, contracted RLG Communications to train 20,000 youth for a period of six months in the Osun state alone on ICT related disciplines such as mobile telephone assembly and repair, computer technologies and entrepreneurial skills. 

The Chairman of Osun State Youth Empowerment Scheme, Prince Adefioye and the scheme's Co-ordinator, Bamboo Bashorun commended the state governor for economic transformation of the Osun state and its people especially the youth and said the initiative would empower as many as 20,000 youths, within a period of 24 months that will work in service centers that would be set up in different locations in Osun State. 

On his part the Country Director of RLG Nigeria, Tosin Illesanmi said work on a multi-purpose ICT Assembly Plant sited in the Osun State was ongoing and commended the state governor for his support for the project which will produce 5,000 mobile phones and 2,000 laptops on daily basis on completion.

"One of the key mandates of RLG was to revolutionize Information and Communications Technology in Africa and create one million jobs for the youth in the world," said Country Director of RLG for Nigeria,” Ilesanmi said.

Earlier in his remark the State Governor Engineer Rauf Aregbesola justified the institution of the initiative and assured that he would continue to offer it the needed support until youth unemployment has been eliminated completely or drastically eradicated in his state.
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