Nigeria: Army Chief, Global Clusters, and Others launch 37m Digital Job Empowerment Project

In a welcomed proactive efforts to depopulate the highly rising labour market for Nigerians, especially youths, the Global Clusters, a national building body, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Waidi Shaidu, Ambassador Deborah Iliya, Nigeria Ambassador to Congo Republic, Ambassador Adekunle Badmus, UN Ambassador of Peace, Sir Cary Gouston, USA, and others, were among the eminent local and global icons, with their global partners who launched the  ‘Mega 37 million digital literacy empowerment, SparkHub, a digital platform aimed at employing 37 million Nigerians and one billion Africans with digital literacy skills.

They commended the catalyst labour project launched at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI auditorium, and said it was aimed at creating more jobs for Nigerians with updated ICT educational skills acquisition and trainings

Speaking at the launch of the initiative, the chief host and Global President of “Global Clusters”, the body pioneering it, Ambassador Dr Adekunle Badmus stated that it is a national movement set to ignite the digital skills, entrepreneurial capacity, and global competitiveness of 37 million Nigerian youths.

“This historic occasion is not merely the launch of initiatives, but for mindset orientation, mentorship, skills acquisition, and structured deployment of youths into productive economic and civil life for nation building“.

According to him, this movement comprised SparksHub, a digital platform, Project A. R.E- Agriculture, Real Estate and Export, which opens  inclusive economic pathways for the participants, who will be trained for free by Global Clusters, to participate meaningfully in real value chains that create wealth, dignity and national productivity.’’

He called on governments and the public sector to encourage and sponsor Nigerians to take part in job-creating projects, which turn participants into employers of labour and help eradicate the alarmingly rising unemployment rate.

In his speech, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Waidi Shaidu, who launched the Global Clusters’ productive books for economic impact, such as  “Sacrifice and Service” by Dr Victory Nnadi, AWO (rtd), asked Nigerians to embrace knowledge to transform them from ignorance to productive nation-building agents.

The army chief, ably represented by Brigadier-General Ahmed Getso, the Commandant of the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, implored Nigerians to write more books to promote literacy.

Ambassador Deborah Iliya, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Congo DR, Ambassador Dr Cary Goulson, President of the International Educators Association, from Florida, USA, who spoke online and other esteemed guest speakers within and outside Nigeria, admonished the government to embark on digital, productive and economically empowering education to liberate the Nigerian mindset.

 The launch also featured an educative panel discussion on the “impact of social media on nation building’ it was was ably anchored by the CEO of Cream influence Strategies, Bolaji Israel. Matron of the Global Clusters, American-Nigerian author and entrepreneur, Michelle Ukoh, drew the curtain of the event with her standout nuggets which turned black Americans in the USA into greatness after 250 years of slavery. She pleaded with Nigerians to love their country, culture, lifestyle and people with unity, to move the nation to greater heights.

By ISAAC DANIEL