Folarin empowers 1,500 youths on ICT

Chairman, Senate Committee on Local Content, Senator Teslim Folarin on Thursday said 1,500 youths have been empowered on various skills in the Information, Communication Technology (ICT) in his constituency in Oyo State. 

He said the empowerment would boost their small-scale businesses in the state.

Speaking during the closing ceremony of the Batch B empowerment training for 1,000 youths in Ibadan, Folarin said cash grants were also given to participants.

“Apart from knowledge and skills imparted to the participants, each of them was given N40,000 to support their business ideas. Excluding multi-million naira expended on the two weeks of intensive training, N60 million has been given to the 1,500 participants,” he noted.