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The Federal Authorities has launched a knowledge safety coaching programme for over a million Nigerian youth.
The initiative which goals to equip younger Nigerians with important expertise to navigate the digital panorama securely, within the face of rising id theft, is being carried out by the Federal Ministry of Youth Improvement (FMYD) in collaboration with the Nigeria Information Safety Fee (NDPC).
Minister of Youth Improvement, Ayodele Olawande formally unveiled the YDPAT platform, which is an interactive, youth-friendly portal for coaching, certification, sources, and ongoing engagement.
Olawande talking on the official launch of the programme at Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, stated the attention and coaching programme for the youth aligns with the willpower of the present administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to create a number of job alternatives for younger Nigerians.
He famous that the Ministry realized that the nation has solely 5,000 licensed Information Safety Officers nationwide, saying the hole is a giant alternative for job creation for younger folks within the information safety sector.
The coaching, which is free, contains classroom and digital periods specializing in the Information Safety Act, information breach response, and compliance monitoring amongst others.
The Minister expressed optimism that the launch of the initiative would educate younger Nigerians on their digital rights, duties, and potential, emphasising the dedication of the Federal Ministry of Youth Improvement to the total implementation and sustainability of the programme.
Olawande stated, “Right now, we’re right here to mark the start of a daring, mandatory, and visionary journey, a journey to empower Nigerian youth with the instruments to know and defend their rights; and to realize alternatives in a brand new digital world.
“As Nigeria’s digital financial system expands, the dangers confronted by our most energetic on-line residents, the youth, additionally will increase. Whereas digital applied sciences provide nice alternatives for studying, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, and creativity, in addition they expose younger folks to severe danger, together with id rip-off and information exploitation.
‘Regardless of the passage of the Nigeria Information Safety Act (NDPA) 2023, consciousness and compliance, particularly among the many youth inhabitants, stay very low.
“As we converse, there are fewer than 5,000 licensed Information Safety Officers nationwide. We see this hole as a giant alternatives for job creation for younger folks within the information safety sector.
“The Youth Information Safety Consciousness and Coaching (YDPAT) program is our collective response to this problem.
“It’s a forward-looking intervention designed to: practice younger Nigerians to shut the hole within the information privateness sector; elevate consciousness of the Nigerian Information Safety Act (NDPA 2023) and world privateness requirements; construct a nationwide motion of digitally literate and security-aware youth,” the Minister said.
He emphasised that programe is about constructing a privacy-first technology, and doing so with inclusion and sustainability in thoughts.
He lauded the administration of the Nigeria Information Safety Fee, the technical and institutional accomplice on this effort, noting “this programme aligns completely with the Renewed Hope Agenda of the present administration, with a imaginative and prescient to empower and safe our younger folks and make them digitally aggressive, each regionally and globally,” Olawande said.
Nationwide Commissioner and Chief Government of Nigeria Information Safety Fee, Dr. Vincent Olatunji, counseled the Ministry of Youth Improvement, recalling that the journey to the launch of the initiative began when Olawande was the Minister of State for Youth Improvement.
He stated NDPC performs a vital position in making certain that people’ information privateness rights are revered and guarded in Nigeria’s more and more digital panorama, including that the disclosing of the portal for graduation of the programme is a landmark progress within the concerted efforts to empower Nigerian youth.
Hadiza Bala Usman, Particular Adviser to the President on Coverage and Coordination, heading the Central Supply Coordination Unit (CDCU), in her remarks, stated the coaching programme was well timed, given the truth that younger folks which varieties the bigger inhabitants of the nation are most uncovered to digital alternatives and danger.
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