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Phone Addiction Worries Kogi Residents by Rolandcruz(m): 6:03pm On Sep 13, 2018 |
Some residents of Lokoja, Kogi, have expressed
worry over the increasing menace of cell phone
addiction, especially among young persons and
women in the state.
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The residents expressed their concern while fielding
questions on the effects of phone addiction among
Nigerian.
Mr Friday Ayoola, a mobile phone dealer, said on
Thursday in Lokoja that about 75 per cent of youths
between the age range of 16 and 25 years were
addicted to their Smart phones.
Ayoola said most of his customers were youths who
use the phones to browse and listen to music aside
making calls.
He said that their hand-held phones as the name
suggests were always handy for services with a lot
of applications for such services as chatting on
Facebook and Whatsapp, pinging, selfie, SMS and
transfers, among others.
The trader said that some youths even use their
phones to watch adult videos, which is not really
proper.
He noted that more females than males in the state
were addicted to phones, especially Android phones.
“I want to implore parents to focus more on their
children especially the underage because once they
have access to Android phone they have access to
Internet which gives them liberty to watch anything
they want,’’ he said.
Mrs Rashidat Lawal, a parent and mother of four,
also said that majority of the phone addicts were
youths.
According to her, house wives are more addicted to
their phones than their husbands because they use
the phone for over 10 hours a day while the men,
though also guilty, are prevented by their jobs.
Lawal said addiction to phones had also led to
incidences of broken homes because a lot of women
give less attention to their domestic chores and
eventual affection for their husbands, homes and
family.
She added that many had little or no time for their
children anytime their attention was needed.
The house wife said that the phones had their
advantages as they could be used for snapshots,
browsing, send and check mails, video calls,
Twitter, watch videos, listen to music and use as
bible in church, among other ills.
Lawal cautioned that too much of everything was bad,
advising that phones should be used with some level
of responsibility.
She also cautioned against health hazards inherent
in addiction to cell phones, saying radiation from the
phones could cause cancer, digital eye strains, neck
problem, accident, male infertility and many more.
Lawal urged government to enact laws that could
limit addiction, noting that “some secondary
students still take their phones to school and play
with it even when teacher is in their classroom”.
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