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In its committedness to the United Nation's Millennium Developing Goals of halving the figure of people living in poorness by 2015, the International Maritime Organization State Government have trained 350 people in assorted computing machine programmes.

Special Adviser to the State Governor on Poverty Alleviation, Hon. Dent Amaefule, disclosed this in a statement to tag the graduation of 160 people who participated in the 2nd form of the programme.

Amaefule said the Agency of Poverty Relief which was inaugurated by the State Governor , Head Ikedi Ohakim embarked upon the computing machine preparation because of the importance of information engineering in the present information age and its possible in creating employment opportunities.

He said: "The push of current Nigerian authorities policy against poorness is to enable the mediocre and more than vulnerable subdivisions of society to accomplish sustainable livelihoods. The attack is to authorise communities, households and people through sustained well coordinated and comprehensive programme of poorness alleviation.

"One of the top tools for development is information and communicating technology. In consideration of this, our Agency taught it worthy to authorise International Maritime Organization people with this tool.

"Today we are proud to state we have got painstakingly trained 350 people qualified and certified not only to use themselves but others also in the field of ICT. One of our major schemes is to use very competent instructors exposed in this field to learn the trainees, providing enabling environment and adequate tools for them," he stressed.

He said that emboldened by the success of the computing machine preparation programme, the Agency for Poverty Relief bes after to broaden the enterprise by establishing three accomplishments acquisition Centres in the three geopolitical zones of the state.

According to him, the accomplishment Centres will have got the capacity to develop participants in about 25 specialised accomplishments including carpentry, car repair, manner designing and computing machine technology.

"The zonal accomplishment Centres are planned for the three geopolitical zones of the state. Each of the Centres can suit about 600 students. This connotes that about 1800 International Maritime Organization State natives will be equipped with specialised accomplishments within a time period ranging from six calendar months to one year.

"The undertaking will be a public/private sector programme which intends that the authorities will spouse with the private sector to accomplish the objective. We also wish to pull support from giver federal agencies that are working on the decrease of poorness and the MDGs," he emphasised. Amaefule said although the accomplishment Centres were not appropriated in the 2008 State Budget, the Agency for Poverty Relief bes after to travel far in the executing of the undertaking through strategical partnership with the private sector and international giver agencies.

"The authorities will supply the enabling environment and basic installations for the project. The private sector will spouse with authorities to accomplish the goal. The Agency for Poverty Relief have worked out modes for this partnership and progress," he said.

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According to him, the Agency in conceiving the programme studied the pitfalls of similar programs embarked upon by different grades of government.

First Lady of the State, Lady Ohakim, who chaired the graduation ceremony, congratulated the Agency of Poverty Relief for its passionateness and committedness in to the virtuousnesses of the New Face of International Maritime Organization programme of the Governor.

She said: "It is not an hyperbole to state that the graduation of these 160 pupils from the constituent portion of the Bureau's programme is a true presentation of your high sense of duty in translating the doctrine of this disposal into practical reality."