* To honour outstanding Contents Developers., organises Pre Award Lecture.
In a bid to arrest deplorable discordant relationship among the residents of kogi state, Oga Films has assured the citizenry of using Social media and blog platforms to mitigate peaceful coexistence in the state.
The Convener of Kogi Social Media Award , Dansofo Usman Jr. made the disclosure in a Press Conference held in the conference room of Majesty International college Lokoja on Thursday.
The Convener said the yearly event was established in 2018 to recognise and encourage Kogi citizens to continually promote and create exceptional contents to solve daily critical life problems.
He disclosed that the organisers have been giving young people a reason to smile whenever they visit their platforms.
According to him, the social media award among other things is to promote cultural integration, unity/peace among users of these channels and to further enhance social interactions.
He explained that kogi social Media award is a platform that creates positive change in the society and geared toward promoting favourable social media platforms.
“This we are doing using the social Media space to gauge Handles from different users by voting online for institutions, groups, corporate organisations and individual categories of their choices in a very transparent and regular manner.
“The Kogi Social Media Awards (KSMA) recognises excellence in content creation, impact, innovation and is ready to award voted talents in various fields, who have carved a niche for themselves by leveraging the social media platform.
“KSMA is a platform to honour the brilliant brains and practitioners of blogs that have ensured effective use of social media in promoting their discipline, business, corporate social responsibility to better the lot of humanity.
“As social media and blogs grow to be the new powerful tool of influence in information communication technology, this event is to connect everyone in highlighting the work of some of the best from the social media fraternity of global and local social media practitioners.
“The Awards is focused on nominations and entries from all social media users in Kogi state through all the social media platforms.
Usman highlighted the main vision of the Award to serve as a catalyst for changing the narrative on the social media space, using the platform as a tool for Promoting peaceful coexistence, tolerance and Socio-economic development, thereby contributing to peace,
unity, tourism potential, progress and development of Kogi state through social media useful engagements
He noted that as part of the package, a pre Award lectures which concern primarily with the use of the social media and influence of education.
According to him ” The Pre Award Lecture will have three sessions with keynote speakers and resource persons on supporting topics.
He said the aim of the event is to escalate a paradigm shift from the recent state of mutual suspicion, political rivalry, hate speech, propaganda and mitigating conflict situations on the Kogi social media space, and engaging conversations for the enhancement of healthy growth within the Kogi online community.
The Three Cardinal Points of the Lecture is focused on using the social media to promote business and entrepreneurial skills, politics and good governance and peaceful coexistence and tolerance amongst the youths that form the bulk of social media users and how best to use the platform for proper branding.
“I wish to call on all people especially the government to begin to support this initiative as it has always been hard for us putting this in place annually.
Of course, there are challenges but we hope to continue to identify them and make a better adjustment as we progress subsequently. Let it be on record today that Kogi Social Media Awards is undoubtedly the 1st Kogi’s biggest Awards. The awards official page on facebook has over 30,000 followers and has the capacity to reach over 10million audience through posts, post shares and ads while the website, www.ksma.com.ng receives not less than 10,000 site visitors or views per day.
Finally, let me quickly appreciate Majesty Movies International for taking up the sponsorship of this years event. It has never happened and we sincerely applaud them for this giant support” He commended.
