Lagos empowers 120,000 public school pupils with digital skills
Lagos State Government has disclosed that 120,000 public primary and secondary schools pupils/students across its Six Educational Districts.
Lagos State Government has disclosed that 120,000 public primary and secondary schools pupils/students across its Six Educational Districts have been empowered with basic computer skills under its Digital Skills Initiative (DSI).
The students/ pupils were trained in the areas of Basic Computer Skills, Coding Skills, Scratch, Cloud Service and World Wide Web, Internet Technology, Interactive and Visualized Coding to prepare them ahead of the global information technology requirement
Special Adviser to Governor Sanwo-Olu on Education, Tokunbo Wahab made this disclosure on Friday at a Ministerial Press Briefing at Alausa , Ikeja Lagos as part of the activities commemorating the 2nd year anniversary of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu ‘s administration in the State.
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The initiatives were aimed at equipping students with essential skills that will make them to be relevant and their services essential in the labour market.
The state government said the Eko job initiative in particular is fast yielding positive results as graduates of the programmes are getting better employment due to their exposure to various capacity building and skills development programmes.
Wahab, noted that those innovations were part of the state government efforts to reduce unemployment rate in the state.
According to him, the jobs initiative programme of the State Government is aimed at preparing final year and penultimate students of tertiary institutions for immediate entry into the workforce as employees and employers of labour by equipping them with the market aligned knowledge, soft skills, business tools and the mind set reorientation in the world of work.
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