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The Borno State Commissioner of Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Mr. Inuwa Bwala, has said that very soon the civil servants in the state work with digital facilities to meet the global trend in information technology.
The commissioner disclosed this while presenting 10 sets of laptop computers to directors of the ministry which held at the conference hall of the ministry, Musa Usman Secretariat, Maiduguri.?
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He said the laptops computers would assist them in performing their jobs efficiently, as the ministry was saddled with responsibility of projecting the image of the state government.?
Mr. Bwala stated that very soon the ministry would embark on massive training and retraining of its staff to meet up with the global trend in information dissemination, adding the ministry of information would be a model of state government’s digitalisation process. ? ?
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“This is the first phase of the exercise, and very soon we will extend the gesture to the lower cadre of the staff, but in the mean time we are going to equip the ministry’s newsroom with information technology facilities to enhance efficiency,” Bwala said.?
Responding on behalf of the beneficiaries, the ministry’s permanent secretary, Alhaji Galadima Zannah said this good gesture by the state government would go a long way in enhancing efficiency and productivity and assured the commissioner that the computers would be used for the purpose they were meant for.?
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He also stated that workers in the ministry were ready to cooperate with other journalists, especially the Correspondents` Chapel, to move the state forward, stressing that the ministry as the mouth piece of government is ready to cooperate with other ministries to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people of the state.