Academy To Train 20 On ICT

The Abuja Training Academy (ATA), has promised to train 20 persons on ICT free of charge every month to make them self-reliant.

Mr John Iyoha, the Chief Operations Officer of the academy, made the pledge recently in Abuja at the inauguration of the facility.

Iyoha said that the gesture to offer free training programmes to people was part of the organisation’s cooperate social responsibility to the community.

He said the organisation was established to cater for both cooperate and private individuals.

Iyoha said that the academy was also established to tackle the downtrend in human skills and knowledge base, adding that the organisation was an advanced citadel for professional and vocational studies with a global outlook.

According to him, the academy is a comprehensive structure put in place as part of efforts to awaken the nation’s educational sector from its deplorable state.

This, he said, could be achieved through private/public partnership advocacy on capital asset re-assessment and the rejuvenation of qualitative learning.

Iyoha said, “It is the brainchild of a group of diverse professionals around the world, all committed to bringing sanity back to humanity through innovative and multi-faceted balance education.”

He said said that the target audience were graduates, undergraduates and workers in various organisations, adding that the academy was set to ensure adequate knowledge transfer from one generation to another.

“The Abuja Training Academy is beyond being a school, it is a mentoring citadel of learning where continuous education remains absolutely the hallmark of accomplished living.”

Mr Alaba Yusuf, the Executive Director, Academics/Corporate Affairs in the academy, said that the role of the academy was to transform beginners to professionals and professionals to experts through capacity building.