Pantami Tasks Youth On Creativity, Entrepreneurial Skills

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November 15th, 2020, 9:25 am

The Minister of Communications and Digital
Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, on Saturday, advised
the Nigerian youth to develop their skills and
drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the
space sector.


Pantami gave the advice at the closing ceremony
of Hackathon Actinspace Competition organised
by NIGCOMSAT Limited in Abuja.


The minister, who was represented by the
Managing Director, Galaxy Backbone, Prof.
Mohammed Abubakar, said the competition’s
focus was critical to the needs of the space
industry and humanity.


“It gives us great opportunity to become major
participants in the growing global digital
economy thereby making ICT not just an enabler
but a catalyst for economic growth,’’ he said.
Pantami said the competition targeted the
creativity of the participants and also sharpened
their entrepreneurial initiatives.


He said the various teams that took part in the
competition were challenged to conceive and
design innovative services and products derived
from space technologies and space acquired
data.


The minister advised the youth to develop
specialised skills in order to empower
themselves, saying it would enable them in
building a workforce and establishing startups for
the communication industry.
He advised the six teams and 25 participants to
work hard as they have demonstrated
capabilities in different projects.


The Managing Director of NIGCOMSAT, Dr
Abimbola Alale, said the competition had made
the participants to be more creative and to bring
out the best in them.
Alale said the digital skills could drive the
nation’s digital economy


She said there was a need to expand and
domesticate the satellite ecosystem in Nigeria.
Mrs Alma Okpelefa, Chairperson, Local
Organising Committee, said although the space
technology appeared a bit abstract, the
competition was meant to make the participants
to understand the benefits of the sector.
Okpelefa, who named the winning group as Team
Astromania from Kaduna State, said it would
represent the country in France next year at a
global contest.


The leader of the winning team, Mr Lamba
Emmanuel, a student of telecommunication
engineering of the Federal University of
Technology, Minna, advised the youth never to
be discouraged but rather to continue to learn
new ideas.


Actinspance is an international competition
targeted at students of tertiary institutions, IT
startups and entrepreneurs to utilise space
technologies to create solutions that improve
everyday life.

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