Posted By: Faith Okerinmodun On: January 6, 2018 In: News Update 0  The Centre for Social and Digital Media Research and Training has said it would embark on a national training on social and digital media marketing for Nigerians. The Coordinator of the Center, Olanrewaju Oyedeji, said they are targeting 10,000 Nigerian youths for the programme. “We are focusing on training Nigerians on how to use social media and digital media for the growth of the country including how to be self -sufficient using digital and social media marketing,” he said. Oyedeji said the importance of social and digital media cannot be under-emphasized especially with the growing technology in many parts of the world. “ Everyday, if you watch the world trend, billions of dollars is spent yearly by companies across the world on advertising. We are building a structure in which youths would become self- sustaining with what they know about social and digital media marketing after the training. We are also calling on various departments and agencies to support efforts at revolutionalizing technology more in Nigeria by using the social and digital media,” he added. Oyedeji said the Centre would use offline and online medium of training for the programme. “We have been training people since 2016. In December 2017 we trained over 200 youths on social and digital marketing and we have commenced same in January 2018. We are also sending our team to campuses around. We are always available via email on NigeriancorporatesocialMedia@gmail.com in case we are needed for trainings anywhere in the country.

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