Education
NICO Commences Campaigns Against Drug Abuse, Cultism In Secondary Schools
The National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) has launched a campaign against drug abuse, cultism, indecent dressing and all forms of social vices in secondary schools beginning with schools in Imo State.
The campaign has so far been taken to nine schools in the state.
Speaking at Ikenegbu Girls Secondary School, Owerri, the state capital, the Executive Secretary/ Chief Executive Officer, NICO, Ado Muhammed Yahuza, said that the Federal Government believes in catching the students young.
Represented by the Director, NICO, South East Zonal Officer, Mrs. Chioma Duru, Yahuza said that the Federal Government was optimistic that establishing cultural clubs in secondary schools would aid the government in the fight against all forms of social vices, including insecurity.
Yahuza said, “We are establishing cultural clubs in secondary schools across the nation in a bid to address the current realities with regards to globalisation and advancement in information and communication technology, which have impacted negatively on the society with the youths being the worst hit in the area of upsurge in crime and immorality; cultism; drug use and abuse; indecent dressing; mental laziness and examination malpractices.
“The objective was to foster a sense of cultural direction through the clubs, which would serve as a platform for the campaign against the vices listed above.”
He advised the students to be on their guard so as not to get swallowed up while they assimilate foreign values.
The NICO boss intimated that the cultural club would engage in cultural debates, quiz competitions in indigenous languages, fashion parade, traditional dances, seminars, and lectures, among others.
Yahuza said that the job of having a secured society starts with raising children who would have no interest in taking to crimes, adding that the establishment of cultural clubs in secondary schools would help in having a crime free society.
The inauguration ceremony featured presentation of gift items to Girls’ Secondary School Ikenegbu.
Gifts such as laptop computer, projector, exercise books and pens, nose masks and big writing board were handed out to the school.
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