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CITAD Promises To Engage Youth in Peace-Building

by Abdulazzez YZ

By Eseohe Ebhota.

The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has said it will continue to work with youths especially in areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

This remark was made by the head of the Abuja office and programme officer, CITAD Mr. Ahmad Muhammad Danyaro during his courtesy visit to Media Trust’s office in Abuja.

While mentioning some of the youth programmes the centre has engaged youths in, Danyaro promised that they would do more to ensure that everyone benefits from them, especially the youths.

He said “In the next few weeks, CITAD will roll out many projects in Abuja which includes Children mobile digital Literacy workshop and Child message collection, Summer Digital Institute for Girls. This is to promote digital inclusion among women and also the establishment of Peace clubs in secondary schools and Tertiary Institutions in Abuja among others”.

He also urged youth to shun hate speeches and embrace peace-building. He added “As part of CITAD’s long years of peace engagement, we partner with Peace and security Network which is the network for sharing information and networking space for donors, locals and International governmental peace building actors in Nigeria”.

Danyaro also congratulated Media Trust on its 20th anniversary in journalism.