Lucrative careers await you in ICT, Glo tells girls

Globacom has assured future female ICT professionals of near unlimited lucrative careers as the sector has limitless opportunities. To that end, the telecommunications company charged school girls across the country to show considerable interest in science subjects as such would enable them to play prominent roles in the technology world in the future. Globacom gave […]

Globacom has assured future female ICT professionals of near unlimited lucrative careers as the sector has limitless opportunities.

To that end, the telecommunications company charged school girls across the country to show considerable interest in science subjects as such would enable them to play prominent roles in the technology world in the future.

Globacom gave the advice at the 2019 edition of the International Girls in ICT Day, organised by eBusinessLife in Lagos.

Globacom was represented at the event by Mrs. Justina Abdulateef, Account Manager, Public Sector, Globacom, Lagos Zone, who remarked that the ICT space required a broad range of skills, as the operators in the sector are continually looking for talented individuals with those skills to play various roles.

Abdulateef noted that typecast and discrimination had deterred many girls from pursuing interests in Information and Communication Technology, and recommended an early break of the stereotypes in the orientations of school girls. This, she said, would go a long way in creating meaningful access to ICT for girls and women.

More women across the globe, she added, interestingly, were proving their mettle in the male-dominated, technical professions, stating that there were numerous examples of women who had distinguished themselves in engineering, medicine and other related professions.

In her opening remarks at the event, Mrs. Ufuoma Daro, the Chief Executive Officer of eBusiness Life, the organisers of the event, thanked Globacom for supporting the initiative this year again, recalling that the company was also one of the prime companies that made it possible for the event to hold last year.