Mrs Mimiko Advocate for Improved Reading Culture Among Youth

  Mrs Mimiko  Advocate  for Improved Reading Culture Among Youth

The wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Olukemi Mimiko has advocated virile reading culture as a proper tool for youth development in Nigeria.

Mrs. Mimiko stated this in Akure at the Global Reading Festival which held in 17 cities in Nigeria and 17 countries across the world at the weekend. After reading a book titled: “17 Secrets of High-Flying Students” to the admiration of over 500 students present at the event, Mimiko said the advent of internet has afforded students the opportunity to easily gather required knowledge to go ahead of their teachers.

She said: “with the advent of internet, the world is becoming smaller, people from different parts of the world now connect easily with one another and it is what you know that would separate you from others. You can only get knowledge through reading; read newspapers, school textbooks, listen to news, it’s not too early for you to start reading research materials, all these will help to widen your horizon and keep you ahead of others.”

Mrs Mimiko also told the students that for them to get to greater heights and become men and women of influence that the society will be looking up to, they must be consistent and hardworking, because, according to her, greatness can never be achieved through playfulness, but through virile reading and effective and wise use of time.

Mimiko however tasked parents and guardians to also help in the task of imbibing reading culture in their wards, saying that the revolution to improve and institutionalize the act of reading in Nigeria must start from homes to the schools.