By Shina Abubakar Osogbo

Osun State Government in collaboration with the office of the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, have commenced technology capacity enhancement for 100 youths resident in the State.

The youths drawn from different sector, including undergraduates, fresh graduates and unemployed were enrolled on the Federal Government-sponsored six month training.

Speaking with newsmen after the official flag off of the training at the SDGs centre Dagbolu, Osogbo on Monday, the Special Adviser to Governor Ademola Adeleke on Sustainable Development Goals, Bamikole Omishore said the training was targeted at empowering youths with the in-demand technology training to make them self sufficient economically.

Omishore, who was represented by the Director of Administration SDGs office, Miss Adeyeye Adebanke said, “The training is targeting the undergraduates, unemployed and others who are interested in system networking installation.

“We have a total of 100 youths participating in the training, they were selected randomly based on the educational background and interest in technology growth.

“This is within the mandate of the SDGs goal 4; quality education, goal 8; decent work and economy growth. It is expected that at least at the end of the programme the participants would have enough knowledge of networking and they will be able to stand on their own and be part of the State’s development process”.

Also speaking, Mr Oyewale Peter, who represented Professor Segun Aina of Fluid click solutions, he said the firm was hired by the Federal Ministry of Education, TVET project to develop special manpower for the growing digital sector in the country.

He added that the 100 beneficiaries from Osun were drawn in conjunction with the Sustainable Development Goals office for training in system networking installation.

“We are to train our students on digital skills and the sector we are basically focusing on is the network system installation majorly networking. The training is going to go for six months, four months training and two months internship.

“I want to also believe that at the end of this exercise, every participant will be adequately empowered in the area of training to be able to handle jobs for corporate organisations”, he added.

Speaking on behalf of the the beneficiaries, Afolabi Tayo disclosed that the training would give them an opportunity to further widen their tech capabilities to become entrepreneurs.