Anthony village NGChuks Lions Club in partnership with Hoop Telecoms has put plans to establish an Information Communications Technology (ICT) centre for the youths within it district.

The Charter President of the club, Engr. James Uwuseba, who gave this pledge during the investiture ceremony of its club officers, fund raising and presentation of awards, said the aim was to expand the youths’ horizon through the knowledge of ICT.

According to him, “There is a big gap in the society of which the youths don’t understand the full benefit of ICT. We want to ensure we bring these youths together with the knowledge we have to teach them, expose them to ICT so that they can be self employed and be able to compete with their peers in the world.”

He said that the club held a training last year where about 60 students, who could not afford the computer training were trained for one month.

Chairman of the occasion, Yomi Dada, said with the way the world is changing, the youths needed to catch up quickly and someone needed to lay the foundation.

“Some of them can’t afford a laptop or these phones/gadgets so, we need to set up an ICT centre and they use it for free without payment. Tech is the future of the world without any doubt. So I think our youths should be given the opportunity to do that and that is what we are doing and that why we are in support of it,” he said.

Special guest honour and Chief Executive Officer of Hoop Telecoms, Mr. Jim Chinasa said the centre will empower youths to be entrepreneurs, stressing that he was a beneficiary from similar infrastructure in the past.

The club also awarded the executive chairman, Kosofe Local Government Area (LGA), Moyosore Ogunlewe for his outstanding performance and humanitarian support.

In appreciation, Ogunlewe thanked the club for the award adding that the award calls for more work. He promised to rehabilitate some of the roads and do more infrastructural projects to the community and people of the local government in the next two years.