NGO urges Nigerians to embrace social media networking

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Networking
By Dele Eniola
Badagry (Lagos State), Oct. 27, 2016 (NAN) Mr Linus Bamoba, Acting Director, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), an NGO, on Thursday urged Nigerians to embrace social media networking as a smart way of connecting with people across the world.
Bamoba said this at the closing ceremony of a youth training programme held at the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Topo, Badagry.
According to him, networking through the social media can create business opportunities, if harnessed properly.
“It’s worrisome to see that most people, including the youths, still underestimate the power of social media networking and its efficiency.
“Social media networking helps people to reach out on a wider scale and this helps in extending your outreach, which in turn will benefit you in so many ways that you can’t imagine.
“This is a tool that, if properly exploited, will bring so many business opportunities to your doorsteps.
“So, I urge people to tap into this and they would reap the full benefits of it,” Bamoba said.
He advised youths to strive to be self-sufficient and employers of labour.
“Youths should learn how to be innovative so that they can be employers of labour and creators of employment for people.
“We should learn how to stop relying on the government for every single thing because they can’t do it all for us,” he said.
In her remarks, Mrs Joy Achoba, Director of Administration, ASCON, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that YALI supports entrepreneurial skills of youths in Africa.
“From the interaction with participants, we have seen engineer turn writer, dabble into fishery, farming, amongst other things.
“ASCON focuses on capacity building, performance enhancement and proffering solutions through training for public and private sectors of the economy.
“We strongly believe that the evolutionary change the world at large looks out for would begin with the youths as they are agents of positive change and well equipped through innovative information,” she said. (NAN)
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(Edited by Wale Ojetimi)