The Chief Executive of one of Nigeria’s frontline IT training Institutions, New Horizons, Mr Tim Akano, at the weekend set up a 7 point agenda for president Goodluck Jonathan to lift Nigeria’s economy using the powers of technology.
For Akano, the common belief that there are no jobs is all a lie. The truth according to him is that there are jobs but most Nigerian graduates lack appropriate skills to add value to the global ecosystem.
He argued that the current university education curricula are mostly outdated and cannot help the graduate in job placement without extra industry-required skills. He however, outlined seven steps government can take to do things differently and have the economy greatly lifted.
He argued that the current university education curricula are mostly outdated and cannot help the graduate in job placement without extra industry-required skills. He however, outlined seven steps government can take to do things differently and have the economy greatly lifted.
Digital Government: Government should use technology to achieve faster economic transformation by automating a lot of its activities that are currently done manually. This will bring down the cost of governance substantially. Also things like taxation, business registration should be digitized.
Setting up cyber security command centre: As at today Nigeria lives in a house with its doors and windows wide open for foreign hackers to come in and steal its information. There is no standing national cyber army warrior on the ground that can defend Nigeria interest at the speed of light. The time has come for the federal government of Nigeria to set up a cyber security command centre. Cyber war is more difficult to win than the conventional war because the enemies are faceless and virtual. They are everywhere without been seen!
Create a smart city: Federal government can make Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt and other sensitive cities in Nigeria smart cities. This will combat terrorism and make investors confidence to remain solid in the commercial axis of Nigeria.
Country-wide biometric registration of all citizens: Nigeria needs an all-in biometrics registration that can never be duplicated. It should be used for both identification and other services like election etc.
Country-wide biometric registration of all citizens: Nigeria needs an all-in biometrics registration that can never be duplicated. It should be used for both identification and other services like election etc.
Sound e-Learning platform: NUC should free the e-learning space to accommodate the 80% of Nigerian youths that are yearly denied university admission due to lack of space in the traditional brick and mortal universities. With e-learning, these youths that will otherwise end up as touts or at best political-dogs or thugs of politicians can have some chance of success in life if they can study at home. The argument that the quality of graduates who study at online universities will be watered down in Virtual universities does not hold water because the market will determine at the end of the day which among the graduates are suitable for employment.
Virtual Alien: If government adopt this strategy and build a framework to make it happen we can get over 1million Nigerian unemployed graduates to work abroad without leaving the shores of Nigeria using the power of technology. This will reduce the graduate unemployment and social friction that leads to terrorisms and suicide bombing. Everything is possible …
- Vanguard.
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