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FG To Expand Digital, Entrepreneurship Economy To 36 States

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja

The Federal Government has restrategised to expand participation in the digital and entrepreneurship economy to the 36 States through digital devices and skills training.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Education TVEE, Dr Abiola Arogundade stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting with digital media managers in Abuja.

The initiative, implemented under the National Digital Skills and Technical Empowerment Programme, NDSTEP, is aimed at widening access to digital skills, vocational training and entrepreneurship opportunities across the country.

While presenting tablets to 70 digital media personnel, she hinted that the devices would help beneficiaries access opportunities, find customers and convert vocational training into sustainable livelihoods.

She noted that the Federal Government plans to distribute 400,000 digital devices to young Nigerians, students, artisans, entrepreneurs and vulnerable groups nationwide, adding that millions of young Nigerians, artisans, trained professionals and small entrepreneurs possessed skills but lacked appropriate digital devices.

Arogundade informed that the media plays a critical role in ensuring the government programmes reach communities and potential beneficiaries, promising to engage print and broadcast media practitioners to broaden coverage of its grassroots information campaign.

She enjoined digital media personnel to deploy their tablets productively by amplifying the government programmes and connecting potential beneficiaries with available opportunities.

“We cannot keep empowering technical people and forget the media. You are the people helping us pass this message,” she said.

Arogundade requested for robust media coverage of the NPRGS Oyo State phase scheduled for September to October, as it would provide vocational training in fashion design, artificial intelligence, graphics and makeup.

The programme is expected to expand across the six geopolitical zones as part of the grassroots empowerment drive, reflecting the Federal Government’s commitment to expanding access to vocational skills, digital tools and entrepreneurship opportunities.  

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