The federal government will support any partnership that addresses literacy and educational challenges including the problem of out of school children and girl child education in
Mr Osinbajo stated this on Thursday when he received on a courtesy visit to the
According to him, "it might help if we begin to look at something more in the area of literacy type skills because really, we are looking at how to expand the whole scope of education especially education for girls.
"So, the question really is how we can use technology to make it easier for girls, in particular, to go to school, because if we somehow bring education to their doorsteps, it might take care of some of the problems around taking them out of their home environment.
According to the Vice President, "for us, our education mandate is so crucial."
Explaining how the federal government is partnering with different stakeholders, Mr Osinbajo said, "It is an interesting partnership - business, government and civil society working together. We are already looking forward to a lot of the great work that will be done."
"All of that fits into our education agenda which partly aims at addressing the out of school children and the girl child education issues."
Speaking on behalf of the Google delegation,
According to him, "Obviously, we have an excellent partner here who has been doing God's work, it is thanks to leading partners like him that we are able to be helpful in communities in which we operate.
"We had made a pledge to train 10 million people in
"With the collaboration that we have with the
He then added that the company's target of training up to 10 million people in
Earlier in the day, Mr Osinbajo while speaking to a delegation from
The Vice President said "We are concerned about making sure that our industries are competitive by fixing power and other infrastructure. We are looking at port operations, trying to connect the port to the
On his part, Mr Magesvaran announced the company's plans to set up a new multi-million-dollar plant in
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