Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has tasked religious groups and others, who abhor gaming and betting to have another look at the positive sides of the trade.
This is as the House of Representatives urged betting and gaming stakeholders to continue to uphold the highest standards of integrity, transparency and responsibility in their operations.
They stated that betting stakeholders must strive to create a safe and secure environment for customers, and a sector free from any form of harm or exploitation.
The governor, who was addressing delegates to the first Enugu State Gaming Conference 2024, yesterday, said that rather than criticising it, they should develop a pipeline that streams pupils and students into profitable jobs in the gaming industry by creating educational and innovative contents that would be helpful to children and society.
MEANWHILE, the state government has trained civil servants in the state on digital skills to boost workflow, efficiency and productivity for workers between the age of 21 and 45 years.
The government began implementing the Digital Skill Nigeria (DSN) programme as part of measures to digitise the Enugu civil service, equip workers with modern skills like their counterparts in developed countries, and institute e-governance infrastructure in the state.
The programme, a collaboration between the Enugu State government, Microsoft, the Federal Ministry of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy, and Tech4Dev, in the first batch that lasted for two weeks, trained at least 2,000 federal, state and local council civil servants, with the state government poised to train as many as 10,000 civil servants in the state by the end of the last quarter of 2024.
