In keeping with his administration's agenda to sort out youth unemployment by creating extra jobs, Ondo State Governor, Fortunate Aiyedatiwa, has partnered with the Nigeria Knowledge Safety Fee (NDPC) to empower youths of the state result in information safety officers.
The governor, represented by his deputy, Olayide Adelami, made this recognized on Friday after a go to to the NDPC headquarters in Abuja.
He mentioned the Ondo State Authorities has designed numerous job creation devices to allow it stabilize the financial system and supply good governance to the folks of the state.
In accordance with him, “Our authorities is obsessed with youth improvement and one of many methods to make sure that our youth are gainfully employed is by equipping them with the correct expertise required for the twenty first century office. In view of this, we’ve got recognized ICT as a key space to upskill our youth and increase their capabilities in order that they are often globally aggressive.
“My go to right here in the present day is to satisfy the staff of NDPC to determine a partnership that may allow us to coach hundreds of younger graduates in Ondo State to develop into Knowledge Safety Officers, thereby realizing the large alternatives on this space.”
The governor recommended the administration and employees of NDPC, led by Nationwide Commissioner Vincent Olatunji, for his or her continued efforts and dedication to info privateness, which he mentioned is consistent with President Bola Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda.
“It’s thrilling that the President by way of coverage, specifically the signing of the Nigeria Knowledge Safety Act 2023, has already opened an unimaginable avenue to create hundreds of jobs for Nigerians because the legislation obliges many organizations, each public and public or privately, to make use of a knowledge safety officer,” the governor mentioned.
Whereas briefing the delegation on the functioning of the fee and the partnership course of, the pioneering Nationwide Commissioner and CEO of NDPC, Vincent Olatunji, mentioned there’s a scarcity of Knowledge Safety Officers in Nigeria, stressing that presently solely 10,000 of the five hundred,000 out there positions have been stuffed.
Olatunji recommended the Ondo State authorities for seeing match to provoke the partnership, which he mentioned “demonstrates the imaginative and prescient of the governor. That is the fourth assembly we’ve got in the present day and I need to say yours is crucial. Your Excellency occurs to be the second senior authorities official to go to the fee since its inception.”
He mentioned the transfer to coach the youths clearly portrayed the Governor of Ondo State as a person with the correct staff and imaginative and prescient. Whereas congratulating Adelami on his appointment as Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Olatunji described the Deputy Governor as a political participant of unusual humility and credibility.