The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) has urged the Federal Government to leverage the potential of the digital economy to reduce the country’s unemployment.
The President and Chairman of the Council of ICSAN, Funmi Ekundayo, said this during a media parley to mark her first anniversary as president of the institute.
She said the digital economy, being the country’s new oil, could go a long way in creating more jobs for the teeming population.
To achieve this, she urged that there must be a strong relationship between the government and the private sector to stimulate growth and improve the economy to tackle joblessness.
The ICSAN boss called for tax rebates on businesses to encourage the private sector to create more jobs, considering the current difficult operating environment.
According to her, there is a need to diversify the economy, while the government should make critical sectors of the economy thrive in an upward trajectory.
Ekundayo called for an adequate support scheme to enable small businesses, including start-ups, to leverage the ecosystem to make their businesses sustainable.
She called for institutional reforms to improve public sector administration in Nigeria.
According to her, good corporate governance is critical and still the foundation across the board to avoid efforts put in to revive the public sector in futility.
The ICSAN President also enjoined all tiers of governments in the country, to show more seriousness about cutting down the cost of governance and be committed to investing more in layers of infrastructure that support productivity and revenue generation.
Citing some of her achievements during the period, Ekundayo, who described the period as remarkable progress, said there were lots of collaborations and strategic visitations on corporate governance practices within the public sector.
Part of this is the birthing of the northern chapter and penetration into the state’s civil service.
The latest among them all is the sod-turning ceremony, adding that ICSAN has a lot to benefit from a more modern secretariat.
