Over 2,000 Nigerian youths from the six geopolitical zones of the country have been trained in digital job acquisition in an intervention programme promoted by the Nigerian Communications Commission.
NCC Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, who disclosed this in a statement Tuesday, noted that 600 youths were being trained in the ongoing edition of the programme.
According to him, the Digital Job Creation for Youths (DJCY) is part of a programme designed to enhance the skills of youths across the six geopolitical zones through customized training and the offer of fully loaded laptop computers with networking devices to equip them for the purposes of engaging in different digital entrepreneurship businesses that they may choose.