FCTA Employees Undergo ICT Training to Boost Productivity

By Sodeinde Temidayo David

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has flagged off another batch of training on Information Communications Technology for 1,950 of its personnel.

The FCT Permanent Secretary, Mr Adesola Olusade, speaking at the flagship programme at the FCTA ICT Laboratory in Abuja, stated that the exercise is to ensure efficiency.

The ICT training has been carefully structured into 12 streams with 163 participants per batch, every week, all together for 12 weeks, with participants drawn from all the Secretariats, Department and Agencies (SDAs) of the FCTA.

Participants were urged to take the exercise seriously as the administration will assess their performance at the end of the training.

It would be recalled that about one month ago, the council flagged off the first batch of 2021 training for over 60 staff of the administration at the Public Service Institute of Nigeria, Kubwa.

According to the Permanent Secretary, the FCT Administration is poised to ensure that its employees become proficient in the use of technology and then empowered adequately to manage administrative processes and functions digitally.

He stated that ICT has become the fastest, latest, most important and widely used innovative tool and skill in the 21st century and will remain the central, most penetrating and directional influence even in the centuries ahead.

The senior council official noted that the world has become a global village, made possible by the extensive imposition of ICT, which as a result much tasks and problems are accomplished and solved more than ever before.

As explained by the FCTA secretary, ICT has made means of communication become more effective, faster and seamless, including digitalisation and globalisation of businesses, adding that technology is a veritable platform for communication and transactions both in the public and private sectors is fast replacing paperwork.

Mr Adesola also posited that every aspect of lives and official function, such as health management, media, public enlightenment, security, clerical, administrative, monitoring and evaluation and many more can become great and progressively enhanced by the emergence of ICT.

He, therefore, urged all staff of the FCTA to embrace technology as the administration was constantly modernising its daily routine duties and operations as it regularly engages and interfaces with agencies.