Literacy Day: Association Seeks Digital Inclusion In FCT

National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Sahara Deck, has urged accrued efforts to span the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) integer divide.

The capoon of Sahara Deck (Abuja Municipal), Mr Chike Onyia, stressed the value of integer literacy successful today’s technology-driven world.

In a connection helium issued to people this year’s International Literacy Day with the theme, “Promoting Literacy successful the Digital Era: Bridging the Gap,” Onyia said, “With literacy and knowledge, you tin region the acheronian successful the caput and enlighten it for a brighter future.”

“Within the FCT, we person noted that attaining integer literacy, particularly among young people, is inactive acold disconnected the mark.

“With the proliferation of IDP camps, thoroughfare hawking and rising cases of out-of-school children, we request to enactment other hard to attain a respectable level of integer literacy successful the state and the FCT.

“In this integer era, determination is an urgent request to put heavy successful integer skills, particularly among the young,” Onyia stated.

He said promoting literacy successful the integer epoch would necessitate a determined, accordant and well-laid-out strategy to code some ceremonial and informal ways of encouraging steadfast integer literacy, particularly among the young.

According to him, the FCT medication and each elected officials indispensable instrumentality banal of the fig of superior and secondary schools successful each the country councils and place infrastructure, knowledge, and staffing gaps successful these schools that could hamper the adoption of integer literacy.