The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has called for shifting of focus from acquisition of certificates to skills education for the actualisation of Nigeria’s digital economic drive.

He said emphasis on certificate must be reduced in engaging labour force, stressing that focus should be shifted to skills, if the nation must catch up with development.

Pantami said many developed and developing countries, such as China, the United States (U.S.A) and Morocco, had shifted attention to skills rather than certificates.

According to him, many of them have established skills centres for their citizens to acquire requisite knowledge.

Pantami noted that though certificate is important, but it is secondary to skill.

The minister said this is why Nigeria must pay attention to skills in its journey to digital economy.

We are championing a paradigm change that lays emphasis on skills, in preference to merely having degrees without skills.


This is a reality for alot of young and enterprising Nigerians who have graduated from reputable institutions in Nigeria and are unable to be get gainful employment after successful study and graduation.

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