Some organisations, to bridge the digital gap in Nigeria and Africa, have pulled resources together to train and develop youths to proffer solutions to national issues plaguing the Continent.
At an event themed: “A world of unlimited possibilities,” the one-week-long training and development, took place at the Redemption City of God, Mowe, Ogun State and was attended by many young people from Nigeria, Africa, Europe among others.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, the National Secretary of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Prof. Funsho Odesola, said authorities in charge of Nigeria’s education sector must develop a digital curriculum that aligns with the current industrial revolution and close the knowledge gap.
“I have said in many fora that our present system of education in Nigeria does not connect with the reality of the future. The future is in the digital. Now, every six months, new things keep coming up making whatever learnt in the previous six months become irrelevant. And when you check our curriculums, they never connect with that reality, a disconnect between progress and today’s problems.
“In this circumstance, we have taken it upon ourselves to see that the young ones are equipped for the future. Not just people in the church, but people in Nigeria and Africa. And what is happening here is the biggest you can have in Africa, to steer in them what the future looks like. It will make them think outside the box and be relevant in the future. We are living in an age that profession has no future for the professional” he said.
Odesola, who disclosed that the youth are being trained and developed digitally to solve national problems and become employers of labour, called on the government to promote digital skills among young enterprising Nigerian youth.
The Chief Executive Officer of Africa Missions Global, Eyono Fatai-Williams saw the digital training as a welcome development.
She said the initiative will be extremely impactful for the youth as it will reach a large number of young people based on what the digital initiative offers. She affirmed that the initiative would reach a large number of youths at least a million a year, adding that when young people are scaled up with digital knowledge, they can do anything in any sector that appeals to them based on their digital skills.
She disclosed partnering with the Incubator Nigeria team to scale up the number of young people that they have previously reached every year to ride on what digital transformation can offer the world.
A member of the Incubator Team, ‘Leke Adeboye posited that the digital skill knowledge training is borne out of the desire to assist and develop an average Nigerian youth.
