In a bid to leverage on IT infrastructural development and capacity building in developing the youths to be self reliant and productive members of the society, a delegation from Jigawa State, led by Barrister Ibrahim Hassan Hadeija, Deputy Governor, Jigawa State recently paid a working visit to Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami FBCS, Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in Abuja.
The aim of the delegation is to collaborate with the agency in areas of IT infrastructural development and capacity building with emphasis on women.
Dr. Pantami, while making his remarks restated the Agency’s commitment to collaborations in order to foster the growth of ICT in Nigeria.
He said, “With the high rate of unemployment and underemployment in Nigeria, we are living on a time bomb, there is the need for leaders to think out of the box to create entrepreneurial opportunities for the youths”.
The DG further stated that Government alone cannot be employer of labour, there is need to create the enabling environment for entrepreneurship to thrive.
It would be recalled that sometime last year, a delegation led by Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, Governor of Bauchi State, paid a similar visit to the DG, with the theme of making unemployed youths in Bauchi state more productive.