A two-day skills acquisition training programme on digital network marketing has been organised in Isiokpo Community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The training programme, sponsored by the traditional ruler of Azumini Community, Eze Kingsley Ogundu, attracted participants from far and near with a charge to them to utilise the knowledge acquired to improve their businesses. Over thirty youths participated in the programme.
Speaking to newsmen, shortly after the programme, the resource person, Mr Chukwudi Uche said the essence of the training was to move away from the traditional system of buying and selling to online which is the easiest modern way of doing business, noting that every online transaction boosts business and increases revenue.
He observed that digital marketing is a global form of business which Eze Ogundu wanted his people to embrace and key into to improve their present and future business undertakings, describing him as a successful entrepreneur and a 21st century man whose experience and exposure had placed him far and above his contemporaries in this sphere of life.
In his remarks, the Isiokpo Youth President, Apsotle Bobby Ezemonye Peter averred that the digital training programme packaged by the Azumini monarch came at the most auspicious time when youths who are the greatest beneficiaries of the scheme needed this wonderful opportunity to enable them realise their maximum potentials so as to add value to the development of the community, and thanked Eze Ogundu for his philanthropic gesture.
A cross section of the beneficiaries who spoke to newsmen noted that the newly crowned royal father of Azumini had always been assisting youths, widows and the less-privileged in various ways, ranging from employment, provision of scholarship, free medical treatment, as well as donation of relief materials to the needy long before he recently joined the Isiokpo Council of Traditional Rulers.