Impact Report
Mr. Udengs Eradiri, the President of the Ijaw Youth Council, has taken up the charge and has decided to declare a war on books in an attempt to change the course of the struggle in changing times. What is not lost upon him is the simple quote ‘Knowledge is Power’ and Mr. Eradiri has taken this message to the Niger Delta youths as the new alternative to violence, arms bearing and insurgency.
Eradiri’s IYC has sent a strong message to impress this philosophy with the launch of a Library and Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre at the Ijaw House in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state. He said ‘First of all, they must be educated’ and added that the initiative was set up ‘to create an environment to develop young people’, he said the motives of ‘a library and an ICT centre’ is primarily ‘to change the perception of our young people’ while it aims to provide costless means of studying and quality research through internet-linked laptops and computers.
The center will be used as a resource and also a training hub for youths while noting that it shall develop programmes and ‘enter into agreements to encourage learning among the youths’.