The Rivers State Gover
\nnor, Chief Nyesom\u00a0 Wike, has been called on initiate\u00a0 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) competition for secondary school students in the state in order to enable them to fully exploit the ICT world.
\nThe President, Niger Delta Coalition Against Violence (NDEAV), Comrade Christian Lekia, made\u00a0 this known\u00a0 in an\u00a0 interview\u00a0 with newsmen Tuesday,\u00a0 in Port Harcourt.
\nHe said the call became imperative due to the high level of ICT development in the world.
\nLekia noted that ICT\u00a0 has come to stay and has all potentials to replace the oil industry.
\nThe Niger Delta Crusader, said an early preparation\u00a0 of Rivers Students in that regard would place\u00a0 them at a vantage\u00a0 position over their peers.
\nThe\u00a0 competition he said, should come\u00a0 in two\u00a0 categories for those in the junior and senior secondary\u00a0 level.
\nWhile those at the senior level should be competing for programme development and other tools, he said those in\u00a0 the junior category should settle for basic tools competition in computer.
\nHe maintained\u00a0 that an early exposure of the school children would enable them to also consider the need of taking it as a major course at the tertirary school level.
\nHe cautioned against being partisan with the competition, saying that a level playing field should be provided for all.
\nMeanwhile, he has also appealed\u00a0 with the governor to take a critical look at the state’s\u00a0 ICT Department\u00a0 and\u00a0 amendments where necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Rivers State Gover nor, Chief Nyesom\u00a0 Wike, has been called on initiate\u00a0 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) competition for secondary school students in the state in order to enable them to fully exploit the ICT world. The President, Niger Delta Coalition Against Violence (NDEAV), Comrade Christian Lekia, made\u00a0 this known\u00a0 in an\u00a0 interview\u00a0 with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}