Still
on education, the Global challenges on Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) demands an improvement in the standard
of education in Nigeria. We have in recent years experienced improvement in
computer technology as the only source of global development in Job creation,
dissemination of information and communication made easy in the world class
today. And as a result, we need to inculcate information and Technology as a
basic foundation for grooming the future citizens of the nation Nigeria.
I
thought as much as the techniques had worked in China which is today amongst
the world’s best producers of electronic gadget just because they made
technical their basic educational foundation for expansion of their economy.
And it really worked out for them.
Nigeria
is blessed even more than China with diverse mineral resources but poor
management due to lack of expertise. Why must we go to outside Nigeria to
employ labor force for rescue of our own citizens? Look at Nigeria begging
United State to come and help them fight their battle of “BOKUHARAM INSURGENCY”, during the abduction of the 276 Chibok girls
on 14th-15th day of April 2014. This is as a result of lack of competency in
ICT world.
If
United State can program Robots to go for war in order to protect their
soldiers from death in the war front. Nigerians should advance to do the same.
We are in the world where science and technology has taken every spheres of
life. Time of shooting guns as human soldiers is phasing out. The Global
technology is adopting a new system to accomplish their missions without
stress. If Nigerians are well loaded in ICT, saving the Chibok girls would have
been a cheap case because some well programmed Robots can go for war and rescue
the girls without being harmed. But because we are still far in technology, we
are not capable of meeting up with demands and that is why we went and source
help from United State of America in 2014 which they turned us down because we cannot
pay for their services with oil.
For
these reasons, it is time for Nigerians to wake up from their slumber and pick
up ICT as well as technical Science and technology to face the global development
challenges. And these can only be achieved through our educational background.
The problem in Nigeria is not only in management but also to include lack of
trained expertise as well as sophisticated equipment to execute the task.
The
proper standard in ICT should be like this in Nigeria: at primary education, a student should have at least master basic
computer operations in computer practically as well as Hardware Maintenance for
computer assemblage, while at the Secondary
Education, they should have mastered the programming languages and how to
use it to build applications before getting into university to further their
educational career. This will embrace automation as a system of execution of
task in the nation as well as reduces division of labor and redundancy in the
labor force of the nation to improve development: as people will cease these
strategies to develop the nation as private companies.
With
these prime standards, we are due for a change in our nation Nigeria as it
affects other developing countries with our product.
Written by
ONYIA EMEKA HARFORD
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