World Youth Skills Day: SkillNG launches project #Skill1000 in Ibadan

A non-governmental organisation, SkillNG sets to empower more than 1000 Nigerian Youth in free digital skills in order to increase their chances of having a sustainable source of livelihoods derived from the digital economy.

Speaking at the press briefing, on Wednesday, at farmkonnect’s building, Bashorun, Ibadan, the Founder of the group, Ibrahim Ọ̀rẹ́dọlá said they want to bring the best out of Nigerian youth in line with their mission of empowering and upskilling the African youth workforce.

SkillNG is a skill development and talent management company that leverages technology to help young people learn global in demand digital and employment readiness skills.

He said there is demand for digital skills more than ever just as companies are also trying to navigate the new normal with the demand for more digitally skilled talents who can work remotely.

According to him, the training will focus on product design, web design, graphics design, social media marketing, copywriting, SEO & content creation, data analysis, google workspace, customer service, software testing and brand identity design.

He said “We have partnered with reputable organisations and businesses to launch Project #Skill1000 in celebration of #WorldYouthSkillsDay 2021. Project #Skill1000 is aimed at helping 1000 young people get skilled, get job/internship placement and geometrically increase their chances of having a sustainable source of livelihoods derived from the digital economy.

“So, by training these 1,000 young people for free, we will be giving them a better chance at securing paid employment, not just that, they will also have the right skills to kick start their freelancing career.

“The core objective is that after the project, we plan to have at least a 70 per cent success rate of young people who have not only acquired significant digital and soft skills but also who have meaningfully kick-started their career on the right path and with the right resources and guidance.

“It is also part of our plan that this project contributes to the regeneration of the economy post-COVID in the education and training sector by giving another 1,000 young people access to upskilling their digital skills in a more efficient way.

“With more people out of job, with many physical businesses being affected by the pandemic, and looking at the IMF’s data that to check the growing unemployment, Nigeria needs to create over 13,000 jobs daily,” he said.

It will be recalled that in 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared July 15 as the World Youth Skills Day in order to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.

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