 The First Lady, Senator Huluremi Itinobu, has flagged off the Women ICT Training Empowerment Programme, organized by the Renewed Hope Initiative, in collaboration with the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA. It's a five-day training specifically designed for women in the FCT. The First Lady, who is represented by her senior special advisor on policy strategy and logistics, Wahab Alawye King, noted that digital literacy is the way forward and women must make good use of the opportunity of the training to improve their knowledge. The idea is to empower the women in digital literacy and digital economy. As we all know, digital economy is the platform you can use to do so many things. It's the one-stop shop where you can do so many things from identification, payment, delivery and all that. You can't even ship people on that platform. So you don't even need a store to operate from that platform. So it is economical when it comes to e-trading, e-commerce and so many other things. So it is a platform that can be used to transform and change the narrative. It is a thing we can use to, you know, wearing the trajectory to make our nation a better place using women. Speaking earlier, the Director of Corporate Planning and Strategy, Netida Arisutu Uyemachi, he said it is the desire of his organization to build the capacity of youths in digital literacy to enhance the economic transformation of Nigeria. They will learn more about what will refer to as the gig economy. The gig economy has actually, you know, be the greatest, the largest employer of labor, I mean, across all sectors now. And when they are empowered with these tools, digital tools, empowered with digital knowledge, they are able to play their key role, you know, in the area of gig economy so that they can be safe reliant, they can even stay at home, for instance, whatever it is, you know, use their digital tools and also connect with the internet, connect with other digital offerings and be able to, you know, sell themselves, sell their market. I mean, the globe now, the world is like a global village. So there is no limitation as what anybody can achieve with digital tools at this particular time. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.