I have empowered over 25,000 Imo state youths in digital skills in the past 12 months- Hope Uzodinma

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State has announced that he has taken significant steps to empower the youth in his state with digital skills. During an interview on Channels television, he revealed that he has already empowered over 25,000 youths in various digital skills over the past year. Additionally, Governor Uzodimma shared his plans to extend this empowerment initiative to include both men and women in the coming weeks.

In his own words, Governor Uzodimma explained the importance of job creation at the state level within the Nigerian federation. He emphasized that his administration has been actively working on job creation, and the results are evident through the empowerment of thousands of Imo State youths in digital skills. Many of these empowered youths have already started their own businesses.

Governor Uzodimma also mentioned the upcoming plans to empower an additional 20,000 men and women with diverse digital skills. He mentioned that his administration has established robust digital platforms aimed at facilitating youth entrepreneurship and skill development. Notably, he shared that some of the graduates from these programs have secured employment opportunities in international companies, emphasizing the goal of creating prosperity in line with the manifesto of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Governor Hope Uzodinma has been actively promoting digital skill empowerment in Imo State, with a focus on both youths and adults, as part of his efforts to boost job creation and economic prosperity in the region.

The governor said; “Nigeria is like a federation and at the state level, we are like the subnational. In Imo State for example, I have started creating jobs. As at the last count, in the last 12 months, I have empowered over 25,000 Imo state Youths in digital skills. They have started their own business and in the next 9 days, I will empower and equip up to 20,000 men and women in different types of digital skills.”

He continued, “I have the most robust digital platforms that is meant to bring up youths to start their own business and also advance to learn on skill or the other. By last week, we’ve gotten out of the 5000 men and women that we graduated, over 1800 working opportunities in international companies abroad. And they are earning salaries, so we are trying to create prosperity consistent with the manifesto of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

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