Information and communication technologies for development is a password to join the league of the advanced Nations of the world. African Nations are trapped in the digital divide with Nigeria in particular on the very bad side of this divide.It is no gainsaying that nearly 65%-75% of the total population of Nigerian youth are yet to update there diaries with the present innovation on this platform. Before you attempt to accuse me of bluntness or short-sightedness in this regard, go to the nearby village where we have good number of young people working as farmers, and ask them anything they know about ICT4D. You will be embarrassed at the reply. You cannot judge the hike of awareness base on the population of young people residence in the metropolitan cities of the country. Even in the cities not all young people can tell about internet or what exactly the computer can do, other than serving few bandits as a defrauding machine..

An average graduate in the public sector still go back to enroll for computer lessons after school while same could have been cleverly sandwiched in the curriculum design of every course. Some schools ,that is, both primary and tertiary institutions are under-equipped with modern e-learning facilities.Those who are even tagged:'computer literates are yet to prove there onion in the ability to impact others around them. Some of these bunch also involve themselves in corrupt practices over the net. You can believe that many so called 419ers are yet to embrace the fact today that one's IP CODE is recorded online while surfing the net . If they had this knowledge i strongly believe they will not sell a birth right of this magnitude cheaply on the altar of self aggrandizement. ICT4D presents to those in the 'Digital Divide' a birthright (equal opportunities ) to square up shoulder-to shoulder with those advanced Nations of the world. But daily they keep defrauding foreigners online in the quest for hard currency. I may blame this negative development on height of poverty in this region.This is no attempt to make advocate for the Dare Devil Fraudsters.

Can you believe that as at the time of packeting this material PayPal does not accept Nigerians and host of other online outfits that would have served as source of resourceful relationships as well as businesses to generate revenues. I am not bleeding at heart for the now but for the generation behind us whose birthright is slaughtered on the altar of selfishness. I therefore call on all stakeholders, Captains of conglomerates, Public service officers and all other concerned Authorities to join force together to array this leviathans before our little world come crashing upon one day.

The government can come up with the idea to set up Monitoring Teams to inspect Cybercafes regularly night and day. Or can even stop outrightly anything like all-night browsing. I am not trying to heap the blame on the internet rats as they are called rather a sustainable effort or structure be put together by the government to ameliorate the increase on the incidence of cybercrimes. Government can even decide to close down all private cybercafes and build information centers at least Four in every city across the entire country which will be duly managed by the Government. In places like Ghana and some of our sister Nations cyber houses are managed by the Government, little wonder lowest ebb of cyber crime in these countries.

I want the forth coming event of ICT4D awareness in the country to address the issues raise so far from this vantage point. I am available to serve as a resource person should i be invited on that status to speak in this regard at this epoch-making event. Please Help Nigeria now !