The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Student Engagement (SSAP-SE), Comrade Sunday Asefon has commenced a free digital skills’ training for girls in Abuja.
Speaking to reporters during the opening session of the training programme, Asefon said the training was in furtherance of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s belief in investing in women.
The programme which is being anchored under the Gender Education, Engagement, Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship Programme (G4EP), an initiative of the office of the SSAP-SE is meant to train 100 girls through intensive hands-on training on digital skills like photography, cinematography, graphics and website design in one month.
Asefon said: “Today, we have launched part of a bigger programme tagged: “Project RISE.” RISE is Renewed Hope, Inclusion, Support and Empowerment for the female students in Nigeria.
“The RISE Project will be launched in Abuja on October 14 and it’s going to be the largest convergence of female students in Nigeria.
Also speaking on training initiative designed to equip young girls across Nigeria with creative and digital skills, the Chairman of the G4EP, Dr. Judith Ogbara, said the RISE Project represents inclusion, empowerment, and opportunity.
According to her, the programme will train 100 girls over the course of one month under G4EP’s flagship project, Renewed Hope for Inclusion, Support, and Empowerment (RISE) which she said is aligned with the present administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda policy.
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