Favour Ozioma Ogbodo
The Federal Government and the United Nations Children Emergency Funds (UNICEF) has empowered sixteen thousand Katsina State girls with digital and entrepreneurship skills.
This is according to a statement signed by the head tutor of Nigerian learning passport, Babangida Zubairu, at the end of the training session in Katsina State School of Nursing on Thursday.
The Nigeria learning passport programme is sponsored by the World Bank to support teaching and learning in Nigeria using digital platform.
Babangida said the training exercise started with two thousand teachers, who then went on to train pupils and other secondary school students in the state.
He explained, “Last week, we had another training of about 5,000 female students of some selected secondary and primary schools, and also out-of-school girls within the state. And now, we have trained another set of students from four selected higher institutions in the state – Federal College of Education, Katsina, Isa Kaita College of Education, Dutsinma, Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic and the School of Nursing, Katsina.
“In each school, we trained at least two thousand students on digital literacy, digital skills and entrepreneurship, using the Nigeria learning passport.”
He went on to say that in the course of the training, digital skills, entrepreneurship skills and digital literary skills of females students in Nigeria will be promoted.
At the end of the training, each participant is expected to be enrolled for three different courses in Nigeria’s learning passport programme.
“By the time they finish the courses, the participants will be issued a certificate signed by the Federal Ministry of Education, UNICEF, and Microsoft. The participants can use the certificates as additional qualifications to serve as evidence that they have obtained a certificate in computer literacy and skills.
“The programme is an intervention from UNICEF, called Girls Employability and Skills Partnership programme (GESP), a two-year programme in four states: Katsina, Sokoto, Bauchi and Lagos,” he said.
