The Biodun Oyebanji-led government in Ekiti State has reaffirmed its commitment to investing in skill acquisition in digital technology for economic development of the State.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Dr, Mrs Folakemi Olomojobi, who was represented by the Director, Evaluation and Standard Department of the ministry, Mrs Modupe Adebayo affirmed this at the induction ceremony for the training of secondary school teachers in HTML and software engineering by Jaytee Ojo foundation in Ado-Ekiti.
The Permanent Secretary expressed that the skill acquisition program was aimed at equipping the teachers with basic and functional literacy education in digital technology to avail them the opportunity to be productive, self-reliant and contribute meaningfully for the training of students in their various schools with the aim of catching them young and to make Ekiti State another hub of digital technology in Nigeria.
Olomojobi, who said further that the programme was intended at catching the students young and make the state another digital technological hub in the country.
She charged the teachers to make use of the skills they would acquire during the training to better their lives and the students they would later train at their different schools.
In his own response, the founder Otunba Taiwo Olayisade Ojo who spoke through the foundation’s ICT Product Manager, Mr Babatunde Dahunsi appreciated the willingness of the teachers to acquire skills especially in the digital technology world.
Otunba Ojo also expressed his gratitude to Ekiti State government under the leadership of Governor Biodun Oyebanji for the support and prompt interest in the area of human capital development, as he said, the foundation was prepared to train people in Ekiti that can stand tall in the midst of their contemporaries from any part of the world in the field of digital technology.
He said the two weeks training was aimed at training twenty secondary school teachers in six different schools in Ekiti with the aim that the teachers would go back to their different schools to start up an ICT club and as well prepare the students for their participation in the programing core that would be organized later this year.
“This programing core by the special grace of God,all the schools that are represented here by their teachers would partake and whosoever wins, the foundation would support the school with ICT solar power supply equipment among other incentives “. He said.
He reiterated that the best two teachers at the end of the ongoing training would be rewarded handsomely and also the schools they represent.
One of the benefiting teachers, Mrs Mojisade Olorunfemi from Harding Model College Ado Ekiti expressed her profound gratitude to the organizer of the training and for deeming it fit to build their intellectual minds in the area of digital technology and promised the state government that wonderful feedback would be delivered and the aim of the training would not be defeated.
The six schools that benefited from the training are; Ado Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, Harding Model College, Ado Ekiti, Government College Ado Ekiti, Government Science College, Iyin Ekiti, Eso Obe Comprehensive High School,Ikoro Ekiti and Doherty Memorial Grammar School,Ijero Ekiti.
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