State Trains 117 Civil Servants On E-Governance

Nasarawa State Government says it has concluded arrangements to fully migrate into E-Governance to be able to build an efficient and a vibrant
digital economy across the 13 local government of the state.

Governor Abdullahi Sule, who was represented by the state head of civil service, Barrister Abigail Waya disclosed this while flagging-off up-scaling training for head of ICT units in Lafia, the state capital on Wednesday.

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According to her, the administration of Governor Abdullahi Sule is committed to the digitalization of the system of work, training and re-training workers, towards building efficiency and a vibrant digital economy.

She said: “We are here today as part of the Government’s resolve to strengthen the foundation ICT is built upon, by training and ensuring that those in charge of ICT in our MDAs understand what is expected of them and the direction the government is working towards as we move to
E-Governance.”

She, however, narrated that the training is based on the need to create, understand and improve efficiency on ICT, adding that this would go a long way in ensuring that staff of ICT units, have the requisite knowledge and skill to drive the process, understand their roles that is expected of them in their MDAs.

“You are to be the trainers, problem solvers and the tech gurus that will guide the MDAs on website creation, email usage, enabling the creation of strategic help centers, towards enabling automation of tasks in the MDAs,” she added.

Barrister Waya further tasked civil servants in the state to embrace the use of technology particularly that the state government is positioning its workers to key into e-government initiatives and into
the idea of going paperless.