IYSDC Trains 50 Teenagers in Osun

No fewer than 50 selected youths across Osun State were involved in a 4-day residential and competitive camp, organised by Ife Youth Sport Development Initiative (IYSDC) in Ile-Ife, Osun State to nurture young talents and instil positive values through structured sports engagement, mentorship and learning.

The maiden edition with the theme "Raising Champion, Inspiring Futures" organised in collaboration with Cybernovr limited, All Eyes on Africa Foundation, Smiling SimonGreenbuild Foundation, Ooni of Ife among others was hosted by Her Royal Highness, Princess Fadekemi Adeyeye Ogunwusi and coordinated by Coach Remi Bamgbopa (Betacoach) in collaboration with the Sports Event Support Hub (SESH).

Speaking exclusively with LEADERSHIP, Princess Fadekemi Adeyeye said the programme initiated by Betacoach was designed to hunt for talents, develop passionate skills, instil virtuous values in participants adding that the vision of the initiative is to camp participants for one or two weeks in future for effective management and teaching to make them the best in their chosen careers.

Delivering his training on Cybersecurity, Dr. Kazeem Durodoye who identified cybercrimes and enumerated the penalties involved for offenders warned participants against engaging in Cybercrime and charged them to become ambassadors of war against Cybercrime by making themselves change agents to wage war against Cybercrime in the society.

"We partner with Ife Youth Development Initiative to create awareness in young children on the implications of cybercrime, we need to educate them on the need to understand their responsibilities to become cybercrime change agents," said Dr Durodoye.

"We have an initiative we call the CyberSecurity education and awareness program, it is undertaken under the auspices of that program, the objective are to correct the narrative around Nigeria saying our youths are yahooyahoo and into cybercrime."

"Secondly, we need to make them know how to protect themselves online for they are vulnerable and it is the education and information they have that they can use to manage and reduce vulnerability and finally, we need to also help them to understand that there are fantastic rewarding carriers in Cybersecurity rather than taken the alternative of Cybercrime."

On what he was able to achieve by appearing before the participants, Durodoye said "Interestingly I was surprised that as young as they are, they are sufficiently aware of those basic understanding of Cybercrime and Cybersecurity, they are also in tune with the menace in the society which is the menace of internet crime otherwise known as yahooyahoo."

"Today, we were able to successfully let them understand that for every Cybercrime, there is a concomitant reaction which is the punishment, and they all agreed to become change agents, to go into security realm rather than crime, to do legitimate hard work and become change agents so that they can become models in the society," Durodoye posited.