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CNP To Invest N500m In Capacity Building
Committed to shape the Nigerian future through digital revolution, the computerise Nigeria Project (CNP) has said that it would invest N500 million on capacity building in the human capital economy for the next five years.
The Head, Computerise Nigeria Project, Mrs Loretta Agbakoba while speaking to newsmen Wednesday, at the International Conference Centre, Abuja said the intervention would come as a three-pronged strategy that would conduct a yearly entrepreneurial conference and an annual award of 25 post graduate scholarships to deserving Nigerian youths.
Agbakoba who noted that entrepreneurship training was at the peak of the aspiration pyramid of every typical Nigerian in recent times, stated that the CNP conceptualised to train, 1,000 entrepreneurs in partnership with the federal Ministry of Labour and productivity.
She maintained that the annual conference would still be organised under the aegis of the Spirit of the Time Nigerian Entrepreneur (SOTNE) while the scholarships would be delivered under the computerised Nigeria Fan Club to be established at states and national levels with a membership drive of over four million in two years nationwide.
Agbakoba revealed that the CNP creates affordable access to information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools and processes, adding that it was taking bold steps to shaping the future of Nigerians through the SOTNE.
The CNP Head stated that entrepreneurship training would continually seek to address the felt needs of the economy in the area of capacity building, adding that SOTNE would bring in renowned world-class resource persons to train a new generation of Nigerian entrepreneurs.
She also revealed that the objective of the SOTNE conference was to produce over 10,000 entrepreneurs in 10 years who would in turn help to achieve the objectives of the nation’s vision 20:20:20
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