Huawei's Training Program Benefits Nigerian Female University Students

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced the partnership with Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Communication Technology (FMCT) on an orientation program on ICT Basic Knowledge on November 4, 2013.

The program is aimed to provide the Nigerian females who are willing to explore their careers in ICT industry with free short- term training and internships.


 The training will be organized in Huawei ICT Training Center in Abuja and Huawei Exhibition Hall in Lagos. About 1,000 female university students will benefit from the one-year duration program.

"The program was part of Huawei's commitment of localization, technology transferring to Nigeria and employment promotion," Mr. Hover Gao, Vice President of Huawei West Africa, said.

He said Huawei and FMCT will develop this campaign into a long- term project. "The training also enables us to create an ICT talents pool and some of the trainees will become Huawei employees, " said Hover.

FMCT expressed high appreciation on Huawei as a responsible corporate citizen in Nigeria, and hoped that the program would attract more Nigerian females into the ICT industry.

Huawei was the first ICT solutions provider to establish an ICT training center in Abuja, the country's capital, back in 2004 and since then the training center has provided more than 5,000 opportunities to ICT practitioners.

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