How Nigerian youths can maximise digital platforms – UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has asked Nigerian youths to constantly engage digital learning platforms as a means of skilling, upskilling and employment.

This is just as the body reiterated its commitment to provide young people with the tools, skills, and capacity to achieve their full potential.

Joannes Yimbesalu, a programme specialist at UNICEF Nigeria, said this in Lagos during a two-day media dialogue on ‘Digital Learning Platforms’.

The programme, which was organised by the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Lagos State, in collaboration with UNICEF, had in attendance journalists, digital content providers, and students of tertiary institutions from the South West states.

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In his remarks, Yimbesalu noted that the Nigerian Learning Passport (NLP), Youth Agency Marketplace (YOMA), among other digital platforms, offer young people opportunities for continuous, technically driven knowledge, skills and employment.

He noted that many of the digital platforms had not been effectively tapped by young people, hence UNICEF’s engagement with the media to help promote the available opportunities in the digital platforms.

“Young people need to continue learning. These platforms are there for them to use.”

The NOA Director, Lagos State, Mrs Adetola Adegboyega, noted that in this digital era, the youth must be “technically inclined as academic certificates are no longer enough.”