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NATIONAL NEWS

Last Updated: Saturday, August 2, 2008

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Importance of computer literacy stressed

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By JOHN EWAOCHE GABRIEL, Kaduna
KADUNA State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Mr. Yohanna Bako Chindo has emphasised the need to be computer literate as it forms the basis for the sue of information technology if any nation must develop technologically.
Represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mallam Yero Narimi at a one day training workshop for small and medium enterprises Thursday, Chindo said, apart from making the country more altractive to foreign investors, information technology will also lower the cost of doing business and equipped the competitiveness of the country’s products.
He said, information technology encourages storage and retrieval of information thereby enhancing efficiency and accessibility especially for foreign investors.
According to him, Kaduna State government will do every thing possible to ensure that the staff of ministries, parastatals are computer literate as some of them are undergoing computer training in various computer schools among which is Kaduna Resources Centre.



 

 

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