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Rivers NITDA to commence kids STEM Bootcamp in FCT, Jigawa, Rivers
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) said it would commence its 2023 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Bootcamp on Monday to drive emerging technologies.
Mrs Hadiza Umar, Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations of the agency said this in a public notice on Friday in Abuja.
Umar said the NITDA STEM Bootcamp (SB4Kids) was designed in two categories which include; the Junior and senior categories.
She said that the junior category was for kids between eight and eleven years, while that of the senior category was for children aged 12 to 15.
“NITDA under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy is calling on interested parents to apply for this year’s Bootcamp for Kids programme.
“The programme will be undertaken through NITDA’s subsidiary, National Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR), Abuja, is in partnership with hubs and state government across the nation.
“This is to facilitate the execution of the programme in line with the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS), and NITDA’s Strategic Roadmap and Action Plan (SRAP 2021-2024) pillar of emerging technologies,” she said.
Umar said the kids would go through series of hands-on training in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Coding, Robotics and Drone technologies.
Other areas for the bootcamp include: Embedded system and Internet of Things, 3D Printing, Digital Communication, among others.
According to the notice, the training will last for ten days.
“The programme will commence on Aug. 21 and close on Aug. 25, for the junior category.
“The senior category will commence on Aug. 28 till Sept. 2,” she said.
Umar said the training venue in Abuja would be the e-Government Training Centre, Public Service Institute of Nigeria (PSIN), Kubwa.
She said the training venue for northern states was the Futuremap Foundation Hadejia CBT and Skills Acquisition Centre, Jigawa
Similarly, the training of the Southen states would hold at the Centre for Information and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Port Harcourt.
According to her, the training is expected to take place simultaneously in the three locations.
She directed interested candidates to fill the forms on forms.gle/5JDBMVNTP5rAfM…, and contact info@nitda.gov.ng; or 08178778499, 08178778501 for further details.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra State Sector Command, has confirmed the death of a woman in an accident at Okpoko Market on the Asaba-Onitsha Road.
The Sector Commander, Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi, who confirmed the accident to journalists in Awka on Thursday, said that the woman was hit while she was crossing the road.
He said that the accident, which occurred on Wednesday, involved a commercial tow truck with registration number XA550BMA.
“Eyewitness report reaching us indicates that the truck was towing a vehicle in an uncontrollable speed along the axis.
“The vehicle that was being towed got detached from the tow truck.
“It hit and killed a female adult, who was said to be crossing the road, while the tow truck continued its movement.
“FRSC rescue team came to the scene and took the woman to Toronto Hospital, Onitsha, where she was confirmed dead and her body deposited at the hospital’s mortuary,” he said.
While sympathising with the family of the dead, the sector commander urged motorists, especially tow truck drivers, to exercise a high level of professionalism.
He also urged the drivers to always use standard equipment and avoid speeding.
The Chairman, Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Lagos State Chapter, Mr Mojeed Iyiola, said the state government’s maize palliative to members of the association made a positive impact on the sector.
Iyiola said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos.
“We received about 150,000 tons of maize in February from the Lagos State government as palliative to cushion the effect of high feed prices.
“The major benefit of the palliative is that it actually cushioned the cost of production for most poultry farmers in the state.
“The palliative was beneficial as it made the cost of some poultry produce, especially eggs to drop,” Iyiola said.
He noted that prior to the palliative, a crate of egg was sold between N3,500 and N3,700 at the farm gate, but after the palliative, it now sells between N3,200 and N3,400.
According to the PAN chair, retailers and middlemen who sell from N3,800 to N4,200 do that for their personal gain.
“We have urged our members to sell their eggs at reasonable prices following the receipt of the palliative from the government.
“We appreciate the Lagos State government for the palliative but we also urge the federal government to do likewise, to further reduce the cost of production in the sector.
“This will consequently lead to drop in the prices of all poultry produce across board,” he said.
He said the palliative was shared among financial members of the association at no extra cost.
“As an association we shared the grains equally across PAN’s eight zones in the state equally. We also mandated each zone not the sell even a grain of the maize.
“We, however, considered new poultry farmers who wanted to the join the association as beneficiaries of the palliative,” said Iyiola.
He noted that through the palliative, more poultry farmers were recruited into the association.
“The maize was shared only to poultry farmers and not feed millers, it is the major component of poultry feed formulation,” he said.
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