Nigeria Minister of Communications says the Federal Government will partner with Google to train the teaming technology savvy youths in various levels of ICT capacity development.

Mr Adebayo Shittu said this in a statement by Mr Victor Oluwadamilare, the Special Assistant on Media to the minister, at the closing of the #GoogleForAfrica event in Lagos on Thursday.

According to him, the government will deploy the opportunity given by Google to further open up the accessibility of turning around the nation’s economy and making ICT the mainstay.



He said that Nigeria as a nation had so much more to learn and gain from the digital revolution being championed by Google.

The minister commended the commitment of Google Nigeria to implement ambitious reforms and bring about macroeconomic stability in the context of the country’s ongoing Smart Digital Nigeria transition process.



Shittu stressed that the efforts were bearing tangible results and had laid the foundation for a credible path to fiscal sustainability and collaboration.

He said the tech company, being one of the tech giants in computing and the web, had been at the centre of the digital penetration.


SOURCE: http://www.barbaric.com.ng/nigeria-partner-google-ict-training-youths-minister