Delta to train girls on digital literacy, entrepreneurial skills

Orode Uduaghan, Delta Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Community Support Services and Girl Child Development, on Thursday, said that her Ministry would be training girls in the State on digital literacy, entrepreneurial skills and business management to enable them become self-sustaining individuals.

Uduaghan explained that the training programme would benefit girls across the 25 Local Government Areas of the State.

Already, the State Executive Council has given approval for the training programme which aims at boosting the Girl-Child Development Initiatives of the State, she disclosed.

The Commissioner made the statement while briefing the Executive and Members of the Asaba Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State led by Ifeanyi Olannye, the Chairman, on the programmes and policies of the Ministry this year.

“We have entered into a partnership with Junior Achievers of Nigeria, with the aim to assist and empower survivors of trafficking in the State”, she said.

Orode Uduaghan further notes the plans by her Ministry to partner the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to train girls in Senior Secondary Schools SS1, SS2 and SS3, on measures to prevent trafficking and common antics deployed by traffickers to lure their victims.