From Mustapha Adamu, Kano
The Nigeria Communication Commission, (NCC) has said that it has trained a lot of Nigerian women on digital entrepreneurship across the country.
The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Professor Umar Garba Dambatta, disclosed this at a public lecture to mark this year’s International Women Day, held in Kano yesterday.
Dambatta said so far, two batches of women had been trained on how to develop applications to market their small-scale businesses.
According to him, the training had given opportunity to the women to develop apps to sell their products and services using the knowledge they acquired during the sessions.
The Executive Vice Chairman also disposed that a set of computer and other accessories were given to the beneficiaries, aimed at using the equipment to improve their socioeconomic life.
He added that the sum of N20,000 grant was also disbursed to the beneficiaries as a startup capital.
He said the commission is also monitoring the beneficiaries to ensure that they put what they have learnt into practice, expressing delight that “they are performing wonderfully well”.
