Youths charge to embrace digital tools to boost agriculture — Former Senatorial candidate charge
— Graduated 95 youths digital knowledge
Kola Oyelere Kano
A former senatorial candidate under the umbrella of All Progressive Congress ( APC) in Kano state, Alhaji Abdulsalam Abubakarim Zaura, popularity known as A A Zaura,has charged youths to embrace digital tools to scale productivity, to apply entrepreneurial thinking to solve real-world challenges
He also urged them “to lead the transformation of agriculture from soil to screen, and from Kano to Nigeria, Africa and to the global marketplace.”
He made this known,when his body AA Zaura Foundation graduated 95 youth on Digital Entrepreneurship.
However,the graduates were drawn from the 44 Local Government areas in the state and were issued with certificate in Diploma in Digital Entrepreneurship.
At the graduation ceremony, held in Kano ,AA Zaura disclosed that the programme was in partnership with University of Sunderland and the London Academy Business School.
According to him, the graduates graduated with a special focus on Digital Entrepreneurship and Agricultural Value Chain Production.
Zaura, a former APC senatorial candidate in Kano said, the beneficiaries not just completing the programme, but had embraced a future that is digital, productive, and full of limitless possibilities.
According to him,” Today’ s
ceremony is not merely about awarding Diplomas in Digital Entrepreneurship, it is about marking the beginning of a new era.”
“An era where Kano youth no longer wait for opportunities to come to them, but one where they can create the opportunities.
“An era where agriculture is no longer seen as subsistence, but one where it has become a technologically powered engine of innovation, enterprise, and wealth creation,” he said.
Describing the graduates as the heartbeat of a changing Nigeria, particularly Kano State,
AA Zaura charged them to “use digital tools to scale productivity, to apply entrepreneurial thinking to solve real-world challenges, and to lead the transformation of agriculture from soil to screen, and from Kano to Nigeria, Africa and to the global marketplace.”
He also thanked the partners for commitment to co-creating the initiative with his Foundation, “and to investing in the capacity of African youth is commendable. This is how global collaboration should work, it should be rooted