Ogun Senator pushes digital governance bill, says Nigeria must modernise

Senator representing Ogun Central, Shuaib Afolabi Salisu, has said Nigeria indispensable urgently betterment its ineligible and governance systems to align with the realities of the planetary integer economy, informing that portion the satellite has embraced technology, “our laws are inactive analogue.”

The lawmaker, who chairs the Senate Committee connected ICT and Cybersecurity, spoke astatine the extremity of a two-week integer skills grooming programme held successful Abeokuta for youths drawn from crossed the district.

The programme, organised successful collaboration with the National Information Technology Development Agency and the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, trained astir 350 participants successful areas including cybersecurity, contented creation, and integer skills.

Speaking astatine the closing ceremonial held astatine the JAMB bureau successful Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Salisu said the aboriginal belongs to countries and individuals that clasp technology.

“You know, the value of this grooming is specified that everybody is alert present that exertion is the absorption to spell and the integer system is growing. We truthful request to absorption connected 2 things — acquisition and ICT skills,” helium said.

The legislator cited the emergence of planetary integer platforms arsenic grounds that exertion has go t...