NAN-H-51
Children
By Chinyere Bassey
Lagos, Dec. 22, 2016 (NAN) A group, Distinguished Child Lifestyle Initiative, on Thursday called for an entrepreneurship programme for children after school to reduce unemployment in Nigeria.
Convener of the outfit, Mrs Abiola Jimoh, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on the sidelines of the maiden edition of the convention.
Theme of the convention organised for no fewer than 100 children is: “My Faith; My Community and I.’’
According to her, it is not a bad thing for children to learn a trade after secondary school, because it will help them to become less dependent in life.
She said that the objective of organising the convention was to encourage children to live right, restore lost values and morals, and also project the community.
“We will get people to talk to the children to enhance their academic performance. Many children, who live in the Railway Compound in Lagos, do not associate.
“We want them to aspire to impact on their environment and community,” the group convener said.
Jimoh also called on parents to supervise their children in the use of modern technology to enable them to grow in the right way.
“If we want our children to follow the trend in the use of computer, we must be able to monitor, control and supervise them,” she said.
The convener said that though, the use of laptops and other modern technology was killing reading culture among youths, installation of educative programmes into computers would boost reading.
Jimoh urged Nigerians to contribute toward ensuring that less privileged children were educated.
“Educate a child, you educate a nation. You educate a child, you close the prison doors,” she said. (NAN)
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Edited by Folorunso Poroye/Olagoke Olatoye