Government urged to provide security for students

As Nigeria continues to grapple with several security challenges that directly impact its economy and the lives of citizens, government at all levels has been urged to provide adequate security for students especially the females.

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 had become obvious that since the capture of Chibok girls, the girl child education had been seriously threatened.

Ogazuma, who regretted the impact of the abduction of the Chibok girls and more similar cases to the girl child, lamented that the most attacks on the educational institutions were targeted at the females .

She called on the authorities to work towards putting an end, even as she urged them to put in place measures for healing when such girls regain freedom from their adoptors.

To the media, she urged them not to remain silent, but rather to work assiduously towards changing the narrative through their reportage.

Speaking on digital economy, Ogazuma who insisted that Nigeria must follow the trend of digitalization for economic growth, regretted that power deficiency had been a major issue.

She noted that the future was driven with innovation and full of opportunities for expanding digitally, adding that Nigeria must engage the younger generations ad 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.

Proffering solution Ogazuma stated that conventional methods of involving traditional rulers reporting and fishing out possible dangerous elements seeking entrance into their community must be reactivated.

Communities she said should do more to ensure that they are not totally helpless.

On power, she called for replication of setting up of small power plants by Communities which she said had been done in some communities within states in the country.