By Gbemiga Olamikan.
Federal Government and other levels of government have been called to provide adequate security for student especially female students in schools across the country as Nigeria continue to grapple with several security challenges that directly impact on its economy and lives of citizens
Edutainment Communicator and Veteran Broadcaster, Ms Debrah Ogazuma made the call on Thursday in Lokoja at the 8th Annual Conference of Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) with the theme: “Nigeria: Tackling Insecurity, Power Deficit, and Transitioning to Digital Economy.”
According to her it has become obvious that since the capture of Chibok girls, the girl child education has been seriously threatened, lamented that the most attacks on the educational institutions were targeted at the female students. She therefore called on the authorities to work towards putting an end to such and put in place measures for healing when such girls regain freedom from their adoptors. She also called on media not to remain silent on it, rather work assiduously towards changing the narrative through their reportage.
Speaking on digital economy, Ogazuma insisted that Nigeria must follow the trend of digitalization for economic growth, regretted that power deficiency has been a major issue.
She noted that the future is driven with innovation and full of opportunities for expanding digitally added that Nigeria must engage the younger generations in order not to be left out. Is Nigeria going to allow insecurity, power deficiency to constitute huge block for the emerging land scape of its economy?”, she queried.
She however proffered solution that “traditional method of involving traditional rulers reporting and fishing out possible dangerous elements seeking entrance into their community must be reactivated”. She charged Communities to do more to ensure that they are not totally helpless.
Reacting to power deficit, Ogazuma called for replication of setting up of small power plants by Communities which has been done in some communities within states in the country.
