‘We take education seriously’, President Tinubu 

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said his administration takes education very seriously as the foremost tool against poverty. 

The President noted that his administration is determined to use education and technology to improve the lives of its citizens, affirming that education is central to uplifting Nigerians.

Tinubu stated that his administration is here to shape Nigeria’s tomorrow, and today, saying the youths represent over 65% of the yearning development age in the country. 

The Nigeria leader while receiving in the audience a delegation from Google (West Africa) led by its Director, Olumide Balogun yesterday maintained that his administration would leverage digital technology to create Nigeria’s desired socio-economic progress that is necessary to transform society.

“The digital economy and telecommunications represent the future, and we are determined to promote it. Your partnership with us to make it a serious development in our economic programme is what is desirable. Our youths have the skills, they are brilliant, and they are good people.” 

President Tinubu further called on Google to partner with the government on the use of data in the public sector to enhance service delivery.

“We have been evaluating different proposals on database development, and you have critical information that can equally help the poor leverage on the use of data.

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“The authentication of transaction integrity across the country to service over 200 million people is not a joke.”

President Tinubu said he is bringing more young people into his administration to further drive transformational efforts and called on Google to ‘come on board’ as a frontline partner in development.

He added that the prospective use cases emanating from the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Quantum Computing must be harnessed, even as he emphasized that development is achieved in stages.

“Let me have breakfast before dinner,” the President quipped.

Speaking, the Director of Google West Africa, Mr. Olumide Balogun reassured  Tinubu of the company’s commitment to supporting its laudable efforts through the deployment of modern digital technology.

Balogun told the  President that the deployment of data technology enhances the efficiency and productivity of businesses with a commitment that Google will give Nigeria a N1.2 billion grant as well as train 20,000 women and children with requisite skills to establish new digital tech job opportunities, which the economy urgently needs.