Akua Sena Dansua, Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs, on Tuesday cautioned the youth against falling prey to the negative use of Information Communication Technology (ICT).

She named some of them as pornography, negative cultural practices, drugs, fraud and “insensitivity towards mankind” which they should guard against.

Speaking at the speech and price giving day of St Roses Senior High School at Akwatia, Ms Dansua asked the youth to desist from networking with dubious people on the net to avoid being lured into immorality and other societal values.

“Please be mindful of how you use ICT so that it will be beneficial rather than problematic and negative to you” she cautioned.

Miss Dansua speaking on the theme “harnessing the potential in the girl-child for positive development for today’s globalised ICT world”, she said ICT held the promise of overcoming or reducing the threat of an ever-widening massive gender divide.

She said knowledge provides power and ICT was obviously a sure source of knowledge and appealed to female students to embrace it and not shy away from it with the mistaken feeling that as a subject in the sciences, it was intimidating.

Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, appealed to women in management positions to encourage young girls to take up science, mathematics, technology and ICT education seriously on a regular basis through seminars.

The Headmistress of St Roses, Mrs Victoria Amaning, said each year over 90 percent of the students gained admission into universities.

Mrs Amaning said in 2008 the school presented 241 students in the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination of which 239 passed in 6 or more subjects making 99.17 percent.

The headmistress described that as a good reflection of the hard work and dedication of the teachers and hoped for 100 percent as from next year.

Source: GNA