15th November, 2010
Alimosho Local Government has launched the first community service website in Nigeria which will provide prompt information for residents of the area and keep them abreast of development.
The local government can be viewed via www.alimosho.org.
The initiative, powered by Higher Definition (HD)Concept, is aimed at helping individuals, business owners and other government and non government organisations by educating, informing and entertaining them with current information that will help them make informed decision.
According to the Managing Director, HD Concept, Mr. Eric Nkennor, the move to establish a functioning on-line for the local government became indispensable as the youths in the environment lack all necessary information about the things happening in and around them.
He expressed concern that the future of the youths in the surburb may be jeopardised if their potential and business possibilities in the environment are not made known to the world at large.
Nkennor said HD Concept partnered with Alimosho Local Government and the Action Congress (AC) state youth leader, Alhaji Abdulahi Enilolobo, to bring the idea.
He said his orgainisation is ready to reposition the people of Alimosho and its environs.
“Our motive with respect to this project is to reveal the potential of the enviroment to the world. The on-line will rebrand the people and help maximse their gifts while creating oppurtunities.
“The site will also create avenues for the community to exhibit their busineses as well as educating and informing people about the community and showing Alimosho people to the entire world,†he said.
In his assessment of the on-line, founder, Divine Fitness Centre, USA, Professor Akanfe Husain, said the facilities have several advantages that would benefit the poeple.
He urged the government to make good use of the oppurtunity to reach the world through the new established avenue.
Prof. Husain, however, urged the youths in Lagos generally to change their mentality and create ways to improve on their environment.
He further advised that Nigerians should not wait for government in solving some problems in their environment since the government at the federal level hardly have time for the people at the local level, He said the people at the grassroots are the government.
“Nigerian youths have great and enviable potential and they must take advantage of the website and change their perception about development. Let the change you desire in this country begin from you,†he advised.
Meanwhile, most of the top senior officials of the local government were not around for the programme that started three hours behind schedule at the Alimosho council secretariat, Akowonjo.
—Ayodeji Adesina
