•Trains 300 N/Delta women
The Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) has called on the government to initiate and implement policies that will encourage digital inclusion for women to prepare them for the post oil era.

The Country Director of SDN, Florence Kayemba, said the Niger Delta is still ravaged with effects of oil exploration and poverty. She stressed the need to strengthen and prepare women to move away from dependency on oil and shift their minds on digital skills to enable them to harness it and begin to play significant roles in the economic development of the country.

She stated this in Port Harcourt when the group, in partnership with the European Union (EU), trained about 300 women in the region on digital skills. Kayemba explained that the preparation is not just for a post Niger Delta period, but also considering that the world has continued to change daily.

According to her, the training was aimed at empowering women on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to leverage and improve their businesses, becoming financially free.

She said: “With digital skills, women can work from home, opportunities are so many, and it will enable women to get involved in economic developments.”