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Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has said his medication is laying a durable, applicable and forward-looking instauration with the Skill-Up Imo Programme.
The politician spoke astatine the Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu International Convention Centre, Owerri, during the graduation of different 10,000 Imo young men and women who precocious completed their integer grooming nether Cohort 3 of the Skill-Up Imo Project.
Recall that 40,000 had earlier been trained successful Cohorts 1 and 2 successful bundle engineering, AI, cyber security, and integer marketing, among different subjects, with galore of them either gainfully employed successful integer exertion extracurricular Imo State oregon self-employed.
During the ceremony, the politician unveiled a integer instrumentality known arsenic MyImoApp to alteration radical to prosecute with the authorities seamlessly for services specified arsenic onshore grounds verification, documentation, taxation payments, exigency reporting, and concern promotion from anyplace successful the world.
Addressing the participants, the politician expressed happiness implicit his administration’s earlier resoluteness to absorption connected integer accomplishment acquisition, younker empowerment and placing the authorities astatine the forefront of the 21st-century integer economy.
He said the medication remains committed to supporting the maturation of young men and women done access, mentorship, concern and infrastructure.
“We are not casually grooming people; we are laying practical, durable and forward-facing foundations,” the politician said.
He added, “We are gathering our Imo Digital City, which volition big Nigeria’s archetypal state-level Artificial Intelligence Institute, a Robotics and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) hub, Innovation Labs, Digital Learning Centres, and a Digital Entrepreneurship Centre designed to service existent needs and unlock existent value.”
In his remarks, the nationalist president of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, commended the politician for the milestone and declared that helium was taking the close direction.
In his goodwill message, the curate of State for Industry, Senator John Owan Enoh, congratulated the politician for coming up with the initiative, stressing that the programme was “a testament to the foresighted enactment of Governor Uzodimma, which aligns with Nigeria’s improvement goals, digitisation and Industrial maturation of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
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