Oyo-State: Prince Akeem Adeyemi Boosts Digital Skills, Facilitates ICT Centres for Schools
Oyo-State: Prince Akeem Adeyemi Boosts Digital Skills, Facilitates ICT Centres for Schools.
University of Ibadan(UI), in Ibadan, and St Bernardine Girls High School, in Oyo, are two new beneficiaries of Nigerian government, through the intervention of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC’s initiatives with the provision of 100 E-PADs each and construction of Information and Communication(ICT) Centres, by Prince Adeyemi Akeem Adeniyi. The provision is under the commission’s Advanced Digital Economy and Advanced Digital Appreciation Programme.
The Advanced Digital Awareness Programme for Tertiary Institutions (ADAPTI) , and other citadels of learning, is aimed at bridging the digital gaps that exists in academia by providing computers, other ICT equipments and the necessary facilities to provide lecturers, staff and students with the requisite digital skills essential for the 21st Century.
Federal government supplies computers and other ICT equipment, including scanners and printers to the beneficiary institutions. This includes also, the provision of suites of E-Learning applications for academics and students in institutions of learning across the country.
The objective of this programme is, specifically, to provide the tools that will enable familiarity and confidence in the utilization of ICT in teaching, research and learning.
Since its introduction in 2008, by the Federal Government of Nigeria, more than 300 institutions of learning have been the beneficiaries of the programme.
In letters addressed to the heads of the two institutions ,the NCC noted that the provisions were made on the recommendation of Member, House of Representatives(MHR), from Oyo Federal Constituency, Honourable(Prince) Adeyemi Akeem Adeniyi, Skimeh.
Many institutions of learning and other individuals have benefitted from many digital literacy programmes and initiatives facilitated and sponsored by the Oyo Prince, Hon. Skimeh. These are in addition to thousands of people and communities, within the federal constituency and beyond, who have benefitted from the Chairman, House Committee on Communications, Prince Adeyemi’s empowerment programs and pro-people schemes.
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