Alumni group holds drug sensitisation programme in Lagos Schools
The alumni association of the International Visitors’ Leadership Programme of the U.S Consulate in Nigeria has held a sensitisation exercise for secondary school students in Lagos State on drug abuse prevention.
The first day of the sensitization programme held at Obele Community Senior High School, Surulere, on Thursday. Adetoun Tade, the IVLP president, Lagos chapter, said the group is committed to making as many impacts as possible, especially at the grassroots level. “We now have students selling drugs to other students, you find knives and different harmful things on students and you’ll be like, these are supposed to be kids,” she said.
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