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A forum known as the Nigerian Corporate Social Media Practitioners Forum has unveiled plans to train Residents and Youths in Ibadan on Social media and Digital Media use.

Speaking ahead of the training, Olanrewaju Oyedeji Director of the Forum hinted that the training would also offer full one year Scholarship to some of the participants at the training program. Olanrewaju said "We feel that Ibadan Residents and Youths can become movers and shakers in the Communication and Media industry especially with the new media trend that is very essential for growth of any society, thus the Need for the training, Youths in Ibadan can earn a living from Social and Digital Media and that's one of our aims to organize the training ".

Speaking further Olanrewaju said the training already got the endorsement of the Oyo State Governor *"We are holding this training with huge support from the Oyo State Governor's Office and we encourage all Youths to tap this opportunity, at the end of the training best participants would be taken to an African Country for a two day exploration and another three lucky participants would be empowered with a scholarship to train them for one year"*.

Organizers affirmed that registration comes at a very subsidized rate for all intending participants "We are not charging participants for the training but rather to take care of them during the training, we have set Training fee at 5000Naira while Registration is free for all intending participants, the training will commence by 18th of December at Leadership Development Centre, Molete, Ibadan opposite NICCON".

It would be recalled that Google recently trained Over 30000 secondary school students to empower them also on technology, the Organizers of the training which is done in Collaboration with Digital Wealth solution and IB Tech 100 forum recently organized the Nigerian Social Media Summit also in Ibadan.

The training will be declared open by the S. A to Governor Ajimobi On Youth Affairs, Bolaji Repete.

Registration can be done via https://eventsure.com.ng/event/53/Ibadan-Ignite or the hotline of the training via 08164847752 can be contacted.