Nigerian
government have been enjoined to use the innovative prowess of the internet to
constructively engage the youths as an aggressive medium of employment that
would take them away from the known social vices.
They
challenged government of all tiers in the country to provide modern facilities
that would encourage constructive use of the internet with pseudo regulatory
framework to guide their online activities.
This was
contained in the resolution reached at the just concluded Anambra youths forum workshop
set up to launch the re-election bid for Governor Wilie Obiano through social
media in Awka.
Youths are
globally regarded as the productive force of any nation, while constructive engagement
of the younger generation on the use of Internet has been described as gold
mine that would drastically reduce terrorism, restiveness, and other social
vices in the country.
Government and
private individuals have however been challenged to utilize the importance of
the internet as nascent medium of engagement that would sharpe the future leader
aright.
They revealed
that the country can comfortably provide 20 million jobs for its youths in one
year with the maximum use of the internet as well as serving as a medium innovative
network for research and technology transfer for human and natural resources development.
The youths stressed the importance of the use of social media
against it negative application, they called on their fellow youths not to be
used as instrument of rascality in the hands of some politicians, to what is now
known as e-rats.
The event
was said to kick start the advocacy and would serve as the medium to engage ten
thousand youths every month on the technological know-how of the positive use
of the internet and benefits inherent in social media for the development of their
environment .
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