Nigeria, Nov. 12 -- The Nigerian government has set out a programme to equip 200,000 youth with basic digital skills over the next two years.

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, said this during the Africa Youth Day celebration and launching of the National Youth Policy pocket size in Abuja on Tuesday.

He listed some of the skills to be taught under the programme as web design and management, software training, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, mobile device repairs, coding and data processing.

The African Youth Day celebration was tagged "One million by 2021, count me in".

The African Youth Day is usually observed only on the first day of November after its adoption in June 2006 by African Heads of Gove...