Gov. Bago bags 2024 digital governor award
Niger State Governor, Farmer Mohammed Umaru has been honored as the digital governor of the year in the category of digital literacy at the Nigeria GOVTECH conference and awards 2024.
The award, organized by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (Presidency), recognises Bago’s efforts in promoting digital literacy and leveraging technology to enhance governance and service delivery in the state.
Bago, represented by the Deputy Governor, Comrade Yakubu Garba, congratulated fellow recipients and thanked organisers, sponsors, and development partners for their support.
He expressed gratitude for the award, pledging to continue promoting technology adoption across all sectors, including education, to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Some notable achievements of the administration in digital literacy include: training market traders and artisans on technology use in Hausa and pidgin english.
Others were training children aged 10-18 in robotics, IoT, and programming, collaborating with Tech4dev to train civil servants in IT skills.
Also were collaborating with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council to train Small and Medium Enterprise on eCommerce to boost exports, organizing training programs for women under the “TechSis” initiative.
Other areas were training commissioners, permanent secretaries, and special advisers for better service delivery using IT, training journalists in open-source Intelligence to reduce fake news spread.
Also were digitalisation of the civil service recruitment process.
Bago said the state had established Ministry for Communication Technology and Digital Economy and an agency for green initiatives, the first of its kind at the sub-national level.
