Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Ltd. has trained no fewer than 2,000 youths and 1,000 federal civil servants on Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

According to a statement issued and made available to The Star on Wednesday by the Media Manager of Huawei, Idongesit Bassey, the training was aimed at producing an ICT talent ecosystem that would form the foundation for Nigeria’s digitisation plan.

Bassey added: “Following the MoU signed with the Office of the Secretary-General of the Federation and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. on ‘ICT FOR CHANGE’ phase III training, the training commenced on May 9, 2022.

“This training is done in order to equip 1,000 civil servants in the area of Information and Communication Technology. So far, through the training programme, about 2,000 Nigerian youths and 1,000 federal civil servants across MDAs have been trained,” she said.

She stated that the civil servants were drawn from various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

According to Bassey, since the commencement of the virtual training, about 1,000 civil servants have been trained by Huawei instructors on e-government, office automation, ICT development trends, 5G, and other ICT-related courses.

The statement quoted some of the participants as describing “the training as being very useful”.

The overall best trainee, who participated during the first batch of the training, Mr Olusegun Samuel, said that the training course has been very useful and an eye-opener to many aspects that need to be improved and implemented.

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“What I have discovered with Huawei is that their passion to discharge their duties and their desires to find and deliver the best possible products and solutions are second-to-none during the five-day training,” Samuel said.

Also speaking on the training, one of the participants, Mr Akuma Ngusur, said: “Huawei office automation will go a long way in solving the current problems of corruption, tribalism, nepotism, and favoritism faced in Nigeria.

“I am proud and happy to be in the first batch of the ICT capacity building.

“I wish to express my profound gratitude to Huawei for the recently concluded ICT FOR CHANGE training.

“I wish to acknowledge the professionalism shown by the team behind the training, the facilitators, and the instructors

“The training has been very educative, broadened my knowledge in various ICT fields and my general perspective on information technology.”

The Star