President Muhammadu Buhari has established a N100 million Technology fund for youth empowerment that will nudge the emergence of world class technology experts in Nigeria, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has disclosed.
The Minister, who disclosed this recently during the inauguration of a Digital Nigeria Centre (DNC), a project executed by the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), an arm of NCC, at the Ijesa Muslim Grammar School, Ilesa, in Osun State, also disclosed that the Fund targets 2,000 youths in the next two years, who will be provided with devices for training in different areas such as software development and design, amongst others.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has established a N100 million Technology Fund for Youth Empowerment, to nudge the emergence of world class technology experts. The Fund targets 2,000 youths in the next two years, who will be provided with devices for training in different areas such as software development and design, amongst others,” the Minister said in a press release issued and signed by the Nigerian Communications Commission’s Head of Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde.