Katsina Government trains 1,600 senior civil servants on ICT technology
Zainab Tanimu
Kaduna Northwest, Nigeria
One thousand six hundred senior civil servants in Katsina state are to undergo Information and Communication Technology, ICT training.
The training on the use of different applications is meant to help boost their work.
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“It’s just the beginning and we started with 1,600 but, of course, other civil servants are coming on board.
“We will make sure that the state is producing competent and quality civil servants that can compete with their counterparts in this country and all over the world,” Isyaku said.
He said that training and re-training of civil servants were central to the administration’s agenda.
According to him, a leader is expected to encourage his workers through training and retraining.
“That’s why we started with the permanent secretaries, and the best were chosen amongst them,” he said.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Department of Establishment, Pension and Training, Alhaji Mas’ud Banye, commended the government for organising the training.
Participants at the training
Banye expressed the confidence that the exercise would positively impact on all the participants.
He said, “The intention of the State Government was to make public service ICT-driven, in order to improve the quality of the services being rendered.”
Also, in an address of welcome, the Rector, Katsina State Institute of Technology Management (ITM), Dr Babangida Abubakar, described the training as “a great development”.
The participants, he said, would be trained on the use of different applications, which would assist them in discharging their duties in their offices.
He called on the participants to concentrate fully, saying that failure to do so would make them neglect their responsibilities.
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