Infotech Centre Harps on Youth Entrepreneurship

By Eileen Ihenmadu.

The Centre for Information Technology and Development(CITAD), on Tuesday held a business facilitation clinic themed “ Creating space for the development of young entrepreneurs”.
The clinic was in partnership with Action Aid Nigeria. The program was aimed to offer a face to face engagement with key government agencies, stakeholders and accomplished young entrepreneurs.
The Executive Director of Centre for Information Technology and Development, Mr. Y Z. Yau, in his remark said the business facilitation clinic seeks to empower young innovators through networking, skills building, mentoring, and access to financing to develop startup solutions that address their economic and development challenges.
“The idea behind this business clinic is to continually support digital rural startups in Nigeria in the area of providing education, training and information that will enhance their business management skills.
“CITAD and Action Aid Nigeria considers young people in the rural communities as central to economic and social advancement through sustained inclusive growth. Part of investing in the future youth to give them the tools to drive inclusive economic growth, social justice and ending poverty in the long run”.
The Executive Director CITAD in partnership with Action Aid Nigeria decided that this year’s event should coincide with the International Youth Day 2018 theme “Safe Spaces for Youths” because the event will facilitate a dialogue on safe spaces between governments, UN agencies,academia, civil society, and most importantly youth groups. With the goal of offering practical solutions to the challenges of creating youth-friendly spaces.
Mr Y.Z. Yau, disclosed that CITAD with the support of Action Aid Nigeria established five modern ICT centres in fifteen communities under the four selected area councils. The programme was under the project on “Digitalisation for Equitable Development in establishment of ICT centres in FCT-Abuja”, which ensured that two hundred and ten youths received training in digital skills, digital entrepreneurship skills, business management skills and business support clinic which held yesterday.
The representative of the Minister in the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mr Hamid M. Nagogo, said the Minister is really impressed with the initiative which seeks to empower youths, he also lauded the project by saying youths have a role to play in the world today.
He advised youths not to see capital as the major problem but look around for what is in need thereby trying to create it. He also encouraged youths to think of ways to develop themselves.
The Executive Director of CITAD, said that by saying the world’s young people who make up the largest generation in history can lead to a global drive to break the patterns of the past and set the world
On course for a more sustainable future adding that young people are traditionally at the cutting edge and today have more information than any previous generation.

CITAD Trains 210 Youths and Women On ICT in 15 Communities Across FCT

By Sarauniya G Usman.

No fewer than 210 Youths & Women in 15 Rural Communities has been trained by Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD),Spread across four area councils in FCT.

The programme, was aimed to offer face -to-face engagement with key government agencies, stakeholders and accomplished young entrepreneurs on the key functions of relevant government agencies and modern business management strategies.

In his remarks,The Executive Director,CITAD, Yau, who was represented by Program Officer, Ahmad Muhammad,CITAD,said, the business facilitation clinic seeks to empower young innovators through networking, skills building, mentoring,and access to financing to develop startup solutions that can address the economic and development challenges”

The director said, the idea behind the business is to continually support digital rural startup in Nigeria in the area of providing education, training and Information that would enhance business management skills.

“Assemble of this nature can create a platform where business regulatory bodies, business development service providers and businesses can interact and provide solutions to challenges inhibiting the startup and growth of startup”.

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The Executive Director,CITAD, Yau, said on the side-lines of the closing ceremony that the training was geared toward empowering the participants in various ICT businesses.
“It was basically tailored toward producing new generations of entrepreneurs among the nation’s teeming youths and women population using ICT as a veritable yard-stick.

The program which is under the project on ” Digitisation for Equitable development in establishment of ICT centres in FCT- Abuja was organised by Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) with support from Action Aid Nigeria in implementing project on Digital Skills
which include: To combine wining the mind campaign with entrepreneurship development to transform idle women/youth into job creators, creating wealth for themselves, their children and the country using digital skills they acquired

The training programme which was tagged: BUSINESS FACILITATION CLINIC “CREATIING SPACE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG ENTERPRENEURS”, attracted youth and women participants from 15 Rural Communities in FCT.