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From Ighomuaye Lucky, Benin
The Edo State Youth Parliament has conducted a preliminary essay writing competition for over 800 students across the state with a view to inculcating the culture of reading and creative writing in them.
Speaking on the theme, “The future of security: Ways which information and communication technology can be adopted in fighting insecurity; the merits, downside and solutions to anticipated indifference in its adoption”, at Imaguero Secondary School, Benin, Speaker of the Parliament Rt Hon Osawemwenhio Uwagboe said the students need to state how Information Communication Technology (ICT) can be used in tackling crime and criminality in the country.
He also said the competition will encourage them to think about how each of them can improve the world through technological advancements as it is now a global village.
Uwagboe said Nigerians would be able to learn from the outcome of the competition about how each of us can make a difference in the world and bring lasting solutions to the issue of insecurity which has set the country backwards in areas of development.
Besides that, he said the goal of the essay competition was to use the enthusiasm, ingenuity, and initiative of the young people in the state to advance a culture of peace and sustainable development.
Uwagboe, speaking on the level of turnout of participants at the event, said that it reveals the fact that a lot of youths, in spite of the ills that have bedevilled the educational system in the country and in the state, in particular, still have a genuine interest in education and purposeful progress.
