Take Advantage of Social Media To Make Money: Prof Okiremuete Advises Nigerian Youths.

  

 

Nigerians Youth have been advised to take advantage of the internet and the social media to make genuine money and better their lives instead of indulging in internet fraud.

Professor Shaka Femi Okiremuete of department of Mass Communication, University of Port Harcourt was speaking in Yenagoa on Saturday as a key note speaker during a conference organized by the institute of mass communication and information management of Nigeria.

 With the theme, communication for national integration, the professor stated that the social media is the in thing now adding that the whole world was drifting towards the internet.

Speaking on social media and national integration, Professor Okiremuete said that the youths of the country can go into software creation adding that soft wares have brought a big revolution on social media/internet.

Stating that all should use the social media including the small scale business men and women, he added that social media should be a tool for monitoring the activities of the government.

He said “If you have a small scale business, you should create a website to advertise your wares. Social media is a tool for monitoring the activities of the government. Government can use the social media for image laundering. Social media has brought unity to nations. It is very important for economic integration and it is a way of building business and creating jobs for the youths.

 Also speaking, Professor Emman-Owums Owuamalams of Department of Mass Communication, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu University  with a topic political communication for national integration and unity stated that in political communication for national integration, four major considerations will be made which are words choice, use and presentation, hence the significance of language use in message delivery.

 He continued “The implication is that political communication in a diverse society facilitates an understanding for public policies, their significance and how they should be understood and adopted for unity and general social harmony. In that way, the frontiers of typologies that differentiate the diverse entities are made less significant in the consideration of persons who make up the nation state.

“Political advertising and political debates he said also help better to enhance understanding of how people of different ethnic origins can be brought to a common focal point in the achievement of unity as an integrative realty emanating from political communication.

  Dr Doubra Otiotio of department of Mass Communication, Niger Delta University also gave a lecture on social media communication and national integration.

In his good will message, the Deputy Vice Chancellor of University of Africa Toru Orua, Professor Barclays Ayakoroma said that parents should allow their wards to choose their own course of study disclosing that is uncle almost gave up on him when he choose to study theater arts in the university.

 He advised the student to hold all the lectures they had listened to dearly to their hearts adding “Even if you can get hard copies, grab them because you will learn so many things from them.

  Speaking on the advent of social media, he said “Many printing outlets are closing down but online is on. Of course, there are negative aspects of social media and that is where control has to be taken into consideration. Some of us, anything comes you post without checking if it is true or not and that is why fake news  is all over the place.

 He congratulated the I institute for organizing the conference adding that that was  the first time the  institute  was making its presence felt in Bayelsa.

Earlier, the Commissioner of Ministry of information, Orientation and Strategy, Bayelsa State, Ayiba Duba represented by Ruth Gwegwe a director in the ministry   commended the institute for hosting the conference.

 He said that the state was ready to partner with organizations like INIM in order to bring publicity to the achievements of Bayelsa State Government.

High point of the event was induction Adam Domo, Uzaka Seiyefa Abraham and Vincent Ekwerike as fellows of the institute while an outstanding award was given to the deputy governor of the state Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo by the institute.