By Dipo Olowookere
A member of the Oyo State House of Assembly Member, Mr Seyi Adisa, has taken a step to improve the economy of the Pacesetter state with a programme design for the youths.
The lawmaker is planning to train over 500 Afijio youths in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), which is regarded as the new gold.
He said the beneficiaries will undergo about five to six months of training from July 2021 on digital skills, noting that the aim of the scheme is to help alleviate poverty and make them useful to their household economically.
Mr Adisa, who is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) representing Afijio State Constituency, disclosed that he came up with this initiative as it was the responsibility of elected leaders to empower their people.
He stated that the empowerment programme tagged Ejekaseyi Digital Entrepreneurial and Employability Program (DEEP) is powered by the Seyi Adisa Development Initiative (SADI).
“The sole purpose is to increase the quality of life and access to opportunities through the learning and mastery of digital skills – basic, intermediate and advanced skills – in the areas of web design and management, software training, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, app development, mobile device repairs, coding and data processing.
“It is no doubt that this move will have a positive impact on the lives of the beneficiaries as digital skills possess the value of gold in this new age.
“You can imagine an average youth in Afijio having the skills needed to create apps or design functional websites…imagine how that will draw a new window of the economy into their lives and particularly into Afijio itself. And that’s the goal,” he said.
Mr Adisa, who is a product of the prestigious King’s College, Lagos, obtained a degree in law from the University of Birmingham and is a founding partner of T&A Legal, a commercial law firm.
