In a bid to empower South West students in digital skills, Oodu’a Investment Foundation (OIF), a non-profit making arm of Odu’a Investment Company Limited (OICL) has unveiled one of its intervention projects: Digital Education for Innovation and Economic Development (DEFINED).
In her address, the chairman of Odu’a Investment Foundation, Dr. Olatokunbo Awolowo Dosumu, said the project will take digital skills too all the 137 local government areas of the South-West states of Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti and Lagos.
“We knew from the beginning that for the South-West to continue to set the pace in Nigeria, we must focus on formulating and implementing cutting-edge ideas and programmes that will speak directly to the needs of our people’s present and future while consolidating on the gains of the past.
“We are taking a significant step in achieving the mandate of the Foundation with the formal launch of the DEFINED project.
Along with the DEFINED project is the introduction of Byte Busters coding clubs in all our primary and secondary schools across the south west. This, we believe, will be another significant digital step towards having a smart, globally competitive youth population.
.“Our young ones are our future. We need to ensure that our youths are equipped with the right education and the right skills which, we believe, will make them not only relevant but competitive in an increasingly technology-driven world.
” You must have what the market needs before you can sell. That is why we must give our young ones the skills and the opportunity to compete and excel on the global stage. That is the whole essence of today’s event.”
She added that they have also discovered incredible eagerness to contribute, and selfless commitment to the nation’s development, saying their advance scouting team has discovered forty functional locations across the states that are ideal hubs for nearby schools as well as tech skills acquisition centres for young adults.
