Kwara Government Flags Off Digital Literacy Program Across Schools

Tunde Akanbi, Ilorin

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The Kwara State Government in North Central Nigeria has flagged off a training program for at least fifty public primary and junior secondary schools throughout the state that focuses on digital literacy and coding.

The programme was organised by the Office of the Special Assistant to the Governor on Digital and Innovation, Ishola Kayode.

Alhaji Sa’adu Salau, the governor’s senior adviser and counsellor, flagged off the program on behalf of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, stating that the goal of the digital coding effort was to bolster the administration’s significant investments in the education sector.

According to Salau, the program aims to enrol more than 150 pupils in each of the 50 schools that will participate in the pilot program.

“We are now faced with the reality of the digital revolution. So, what we have done today is to flag-off the training for digital literacy in 50 schools in Kwara State,” he said at the symbolic launch at the Bishop’s Smith Junior Secondary School Ilorin.

“It is our expectation that with the foundation laying of a digital society for this generation, the children of Kwara State would not lag behind among their counterparts globally.”

Other public schools in the capital city where the pilot scheme was launched included Queen Elizabeth School, Ilorin Grammar School, and Sheikh Alimi L.G.E.A. Primary School.

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Ishola, for his part, said the programme was to ensure that public school students are not lagging in the digital world.

“They should be digitally literate; they should be able to solve problems in their communities because the problems can be solved with the knowledge of technology, and if you don’t have that knowledge, you can’t actually solve the problems.

“The selection of 50 schools was to serve as a pilot scheme. 15 schools are selected from Kwara Central, 13 from North, while 22 are picked from the southern part of the state,” he said.

He said the programme would be expanded after the data-driven assessment.

In an era where artificial intelligence and information technology have become necessities of life, the Bishop’s Smith College (Junior Session) Principal, Mrs. Akanbi Janet Ayoola, said the project is one of the best decisions the Governor has made.

Among other students who spoke at the ceremony, Opadili Dorcas Boluwatife and Akinola Kolawole Abdulrahman thanked the state government for the initiative and pledged to take full advantage of the opportunity, which they said would allow them to compete favourably with their counterparts worldwide in the digital revolution.

 

 

 

 

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