Femi Onireti’s City Boy Movement partners JAARC for intensive CBT training for 500 youths in Ogbomoso

Image caption: Femi Onireti (left) with Revd Niyi Adebayo

Femi Onireti’s City Boy Movement partners JAARC for intensive CBT training for 500 youths in Ogbomoso

Adebayo ADELEKE

City Boy Movement (CBM) Oyo state chapter partners with Jacob Adebayo Afolayanka Resource Centre (JAARC), to organize a digital literacy/ CBT training program for 500 students in Ogbomoso.

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500 young Nigerians in Ogbomoso, Oyo state, Friday began an intensive free digital literacy training, that would last two days.

The training, taking place at the Jacob Adebayo Afolayanka Resource Centre (JAARC), Zoe SChools, at Abaa, a product of partnership between City Boy Movement (CBM), led by Hon Olufemi Onireti at the Oyo state level; and JAARC, an accredited Computer Based Test (CBT) centre, “aims to develop core competencies in four areas that will build the participants’ foundation in digital literacy and enhance their competencies.”

The training will cover Computer-Based Test training for CBT Examinations Readiness, Core Digital Literacy, Safe and Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Wellness and Safe Speech.

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Rev’d (Dr) Niyi Adebayo Director of JAARC, said the training was beyond politics but a programme targeted at exposing the young ones to digital literacy.

Rev’d Adebayo noted “some of them are sitting at a CBT centre for the first time and you can see the excitement; this could have cost them thousands of naira to undertake but it is being done free of charge, kudos to the leadership of the CBM, the All progressives Congress (APC) and JAARC (which is hosting them). Many of the students will never forget this training. It is beyond giving three congos of rice, giving motorcycles, it is a lifetime investment. And we will give them certificates.”

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Olamide Aderibigbe, deputy state director of media of CBM said they were fulfilled partnering with JAARC for the training expressing confidence the trainees would benefit a lot, “I am sure a fire had been kindled in them, that will usher them into a new journey of digital literacy.”

Likewise, Temitope Olayiwola, zonal coordinator of CBM stated the training aims at improving the digital literacy of the students.

Others who represented CBM at the event are Samshideen Akano a.k.a. Eji (secretary, Ogbomoso North), and Akintade Taofiq (state director of branding).

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