The Benue State Government has said it would generate no fewer than 50,000 jobs at the end of its digital and ICT training for youths of the state.
The state government commenced the training of 10,000 Benue youths in digital skills and ICT on Monday.
The training, which will last for six months, is undertaken by the Benue Tech Skills Programme.
Lead Consultant of the programme, Jeffrey Udende, while briefing newsmen after assessing the commencement of the programme, commended Governor Hyacinth Alia for giving the Benue youth the opportunity to develop themselves.
He said: “What the government is doing is not just training the youths but those who have done this successfully and have no jobs will be given jobs.
“We are training 10,000 youths physically and online. We created the online classroom because of those who applied and went for NYSC. The good thing about the training is that the jobs are hanging. This is the first government in Nigeria that is giving the youths intensive digital ICT training. In fact, the participants are doing very well and we are looking at exporting the talents before the end of the training period because all of them that are getting on well will get jobs.”
