The government also noted that it would work towards
ensuring Nigerians were gainfully employed to discourage the need to travel
abroad.
The Minister of State for Science, Technology and
Innovation, Henry Ikoh, made the statement in Abuja while receiving the
Secretary-General of the Digital Cooperation Organisation, Ms Deemah Yahya, who
paid him a courtesy visit in connection with the upcoming Digital Nigeria Day
Conference.
He said the government intended to correct the trend through
industrialisation, which could be achieved by synergising with the DCO in the
area of human capital development.
His word: “The synergy is what we require, capacity building
is key and technology transfer is what Nigeria and Africa in particular needs
at the moment so that the world can be a global village. We need to collaborate
in all areas to ensure harmony.
”If we collaborate and synergise in the area of human
capital development, it would guarantee industrialisation, when people are
gainfully employed and moved out from poverty, then Africans and Nigerians
would not be struggling to travel abroad because everything is here. We have
all the raw materials; what we really require in terms of digitalisation is for
us to cross fertilise ideas, train and retrain our people then things would be
better.”
Yahya said the group was in Nigeria to understudy her
digital ecosystem and understand who the players were.
She said, “We are very proud that Nigeria is a founding
member of the Digital Corporation Organisation, which is a multilateral
organisation that focuses on advancing the digital economy in member states. We
represent 12 countries, from three continents, representing 600 million in
population and $2 trillion in the GDP.
“We are very happy that Nigeria has been a founding member
and we are here not only to reiterate our commitment to empowering digital
economic transformation strategies of Nigeria but also to understand the
ecosystem of Nigeria, being the players in terms of government, private sector,
and civil society.
t is also for us to understand how the DCO can help support
the growth of Nigeria and hopefully be an enabler.”
There has been an increase in the rate of migration of
Nigerians to other countries.
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