OSSAP-TVEE donates laptops, course licenses worth N80m to students

By Mashe Umaru Gwamna

In line with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Education (OSSAP-TVEE), Abiola Arogundade, has donated 50 laptops, 50 industrial training course licenses worth 80 million Naira  to students of Government Science and Technical College, Garki, Abuja.

This was contained in a  statement signed and issued by ACIO Ministry of Information, Henry David .

Arogundade made the disclosure during the handling over ceremony recently, at the college.

She said that the laptops were equipped with appropriate software to support a six-month training program in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Engineering.

She said the donations was in line with the presidential mandate to promote innovation in technical education.

She adds: “We are giving licenses to 25 students for each of these courses who will each also receive a laptop which is already configured with the appropriate software downloaded to enable the beneficiaries to do the course effectively.”

According to her, there is a  need to focus on promoting technical, vocational, and entrepreneurship education .

“It is good to reinforced, technical and entrepreneurial skills among the students.

“This is the beginning of a journey into stimulating innovation in technical education in the country which is one of the major pillars of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration”,Arogundade stated .

She called on the benefiting students to seize the opportunity presented to them at the training to  envisioned them as future entrepreneurs in the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Responding, the Principal of the school, James Kuta, expressed delight at the gesture describing it as a privilege to be chosen among many other technical institutions in the country as the first to receive the courses and laptops for the six-month programme.

The Principal said: “It is a privilege that our youths are being captured at this age to engage in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence”.

Some of the beneficiaries, Muhammad Onono Hadiyyah, Augustine Daniella and Manasseh Goodness Injadoo, among many others received the  Robotic Sciences training, thanked  the President Tinubu administration for its commitment to youth development in the country and expressed gratitude to the SSAP-TVEE making them beneficiaries of the gesture.