Update - Kwara State Governor promises a tech-driven post coronavirus economy

Credit :- Today

His Excellency,The Executive Governor of Kwara State Abdulrazak Abdulrahman on saturday  said that the COVID-19 pandemic as forced the country to come to agreement with the reality of migrating to a full IT driven economy.

His Excellency made the statment at the government-backed virtual digital training for youths in the state amid the call for the need for a competitive participation to innovate homegrown technological solutions to local problems.

In his words :-

"The lock-down arising from the COVID-19 pandemic again confirmed that the country must come to term with deploying technology in all facets of life,including in agriculture,manufacturing, and education.

Going to two months now our civil servants have been at home and that shows that the physical aspect of getting up to go to work is going.work i going on and government activities are moving. our schools have been shut  and we ca n see that most of the students are doing online learning"

"yes there are difficulties to that because some people complaining about not having data to go online  and so on,but when we keep talking amongst ourselves we would find solutions to that. we would find solutions like live streaming and offline training."

"It doesnt have to be physical training in school; eventually we eould come to a solution . The future is bright , it is just for us to plan ahead and know what we want to do,what we are going to do,what our targets are ,and create a new environment for technology,which is to say those that will manufacture and those that will do IT will do IT, but thereshould be a synergy between all of them in ordder to see how you would get the farmers' produce to the market and those involved in agro processing."

"The civil servants should be able to work properly from home using the tools (of technology) available to them.That is why we are here ; we would want to invest in what you do and partner with you. The government is ready, and our doors are open to partner with you to put Kwara on the map of technology in  Nigeria ,Africa and the world."