Mohammed Shosanya
Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijjani on Thursday said that digital economy contributed 20 percent to the Nigeria Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Tijjani Bosun,who spoke in Kano at the end of a 5 days National Council on Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy,explained that this was made possible by the youths population who are digitally native.
He revealed that “Nigeria is extremely blessed, 60 percent of her population are youths under the age of 25 that are digitally native.”
Bosun noted that Nigeria digital economy is the best in Africa, adding that the strength, and dominant of the youth in the sector made the nation an investment hub in Africa.
He stressed “Computerisation change the world, it takes the burden off the human, and as well empower people to farm in the way we’ve not seen before simply through education.”
He advocated the need to strengthen the backbone of our economy through technology to achieve predetermined goals.
The Minister said “We need to build the workforce, and this has made it incumbent on Nigeria to invest on fibal optic networks to boost internet penetration”
