University Of Jos Set To Kick Against Plagiarism Among Student.

University Of Jos have set up to kick against plagiarism among student by introducing a Plagiarism  detective in the institution.

The institution’s librarian, Dr. Stephen Akintunde, made these known while presenting a paper at a workshop on Media and Information Literacy, MIL in Nigeria themed: Tackling Religious Extremism and Counter-terrorism through Media Information Literacy. In his paper presentation titled: ICT as a tool for economic empowerment, Dr. Akintunde lamented the rate of idleness among students who while away time, fiddling with their electronic devices without deploying them to fruitful academic ventures.

He stressed that such habit results into stray-thinking. According to him, “ICT can be a silent counter to terrorism as it is a torch for economic activities.

Economic empowerment engages the minds and energy and when you are empowered, you have a constructive way of exerting energy. Idleness gives way to stray-thinking and it is cancerous; it is disuse of ICT so the University of Jos Library will train people on responsible uses of internet and social media.

Plagiarism detective would be introduced in the university to ascertain the originality of students’ works.” The workshop was organized by the institution’s Department of Mass Communication in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO and papers presented included Media Information Literacy as a proactive measure in combating internet radicalism and extremism among youths by Dr. Ismail Ibrahim of University of Lagos.

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