20,000 Rivers Students Benefit From ICT Vacation Training

No fewer than 20,000 students of Rivers origin in Junior and Senior Secondary Schools have benefited from this year’s free Information Communication Technology (ICT) training in the state.

Speaking at the event to round off the training in Port Harcourt, the Special Adviser to Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi on ICT, Goodlife Nmekini said the training initiated by the state government was designed to be part of the long vacation lesson for students.

“What ICT department has done was to use this long holiday to engage the students of both Junior and Senior Secondary Schools in the state on free ICT training, so that when they go back to school, they can build easily on the ICT knowledge acquired”, Mr. Nmekini explained.

He said,  the ICT training was also designed to reduce wandering among some students during the long holiday in the state.

According to him, the training has given meaningful stuff and knowledge, which the students would go back to schools with.

Commending the state government, one of the beneficiaries of the ICT training, Ben Loveday said that the three weeks training has prepared him enough to tackle the challenges of computer illiteracy.

He used the opportunity to appeal to the state government to maintain the free ICT training programme during long vacation in the state.

He also urged the state government to make ICT study compulsory in schools for all students and pupils in primary and secondary schools in the state.

Meanwhile, Governor Amaechi’s aide says the state ICT centre is open for training with low fees for a certificate programme in ICT, adding that services of the ICT centre is available for indigenes and non indigenes alike.

Enoch Epelle