Abuja- An ICT Expert, Mr Mark Woji, has advised the Federal Government to create an environment conducive for youths to promote their talents, as part of the initiatives to improve Nigeria’s GDP.
Woji, who is the Project Partner, North Central Operations of Mind the Gap, an NGO, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Saturday.
He said that government should create an enabling environment for youths to have a platform to promote their talents and widen their horizons.
“Federal Government should create an enabling environment where anybody who wants to do anything will have a platform where they can be promoted.
“For example Mark Zuckerberg was in Nigeria recently, he is the founder of facebook.
“We know that facebook alone in one year makes more money than Dangote, that is a person that dropped out of school.
“What he knows how to do is to code and write programmes on computers and he started writing and created what he called Face book.
“Today, only five people are richer than him; he is the sixth richest person in the world.’’
He said that government could help the youths by creating enabling environment where anybody with any idea could digitalise it and this would create employment for Nigerians.
“China and America are what they are today because they closed their borders and asked young and old people to start producing, by the time they opened their borders; they started exporting things.
“We are in a country where we encourage white collar jobs, people go to school after graduation, they wait for government’s jobs, that is why we are in recession.
“I know of universities where they have made cars before but nobody encourages them and before you know companies abroad will engage them.’’
Woji said that his NGO trained Nigerian youths to leverage on digital skills to help them to build their businesses to improve their lives.
He said that they also assisted youths to create impact online to make profit.