{"id":79109,"date":"2025-11-21T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79109"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:59:56","slug":"neca-graduates-first-ict-academy-trainees-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/21\/neca-graduates-first-ict-academy-trainees-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"NECA Graduates First ICT Academy Trainees in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Employers\u2019 Consultative Association (NECA) has graduated the pioneer cohort of its ICT Academy in Abuja, an initiative designed to equip young Nigerians with essential digital skills for employability and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony drew government officials, private-sector leaders and development partners committed to boosting youth participation in the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>NECA Director-General, Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, said the academy was created to bridge Nigeria\u2019s digital skills gap and empower young people with practical, future-ready competencies. He reaffirmed NECA\u2019s commitment to strengthening the country\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Representing the Nasarawa State Governor, Engr. Abdullahi Sule, a government delegate praised NECA\u2019s efforts and expressed the state\u2019s willingness to partner in expanding digital and vocational training.<\/p>\n<p>The graduates, trained in digital literacy, ICT essentials and employability skills, described the programme as the beginning of new opportunities in Nigeria\u2019s tech-driven economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Nigeria Employers\u2019 Consultative Association (NECA) has graduated the pioneer cohort of its ICT Academy in Abuja, an initiative designed to equip young Nigerians with essential digital skills for employability and innovation. The ceremony drew government officials, private-sector leaders and development partners committed to boosting youth participation in the digital economy. NECA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79111,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79109\/revisions\/79111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}