Shun Indiscipline, NOA Urges Students

Date: 2014-02-10

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has urged students  to shun all forms of indiscipline and embrace good conduct.

The Director General of NOA, Mr Mike Omeri,  made the call  at a  sensitisation programme held at the  Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin,and  tagged:  "Do the Right Thing: Campus Focus.''

He said  the programme was geared toward  strengthening dialogue between young people, policy-makers and the rest of society in order  to promote meaningful dialogue  at different levels.

Omeri,  who was represented by the Director of NOA in Kwara, Mr Felix Olowokere, said the sensitisation programme was part of the agency's efforts to effect genuine attitudinal change in  students.

Alhaji Isiaka Gold, the Secretary to the Kwara State Government,  said the  exercise could not have come at a better time than now  "when social vices have virtually become the language of the moment among Nigerian youths across the board.''

He assured the  NOA of government's support and assistance in all its programmes, saying  "we will support you morally and physically to make your well articulated programmes a huge success."

Gold,  who was represented by Mr David Adesina, the Director (Political),  admonished the NOA to extend its re-orientation programme to students in secondary schools.

In his keynote address, Prof.  Shehu Jimoh, the  Chairman of Kwara State Polytechnic Governing Council,  lamented that the "educational system in Nigeria has gone haywire as many Nigerian graduates are not educated.''

Jimoh  spoke on the topic,  "Nigeria's  Tertiary Institutions of Learning-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Implication for National Transformation.''

He  identified youth restiveness as one of the major challenges facing the nation's education sector.

The retired university teacher also  cited  examination malpractice, robbery, cultism, drug abuse and trafficking, indecent dressing, rape and  sexual harassment as  other vices.

He said the peculiar problems facing the country were the products  of bad leadership, poor parental care and inappropriate policies.

Jimoh advised parents, teachers and leaders  to live  by example so as to serve as reference point  to the youths. (NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kemi Adeosun     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Sambo Murtala     Olatunde Olukoya     Balogun Gambari     SARS     Okin Malt     First Lady     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Yusuf Aiyedun     08001000100     Musbau A. Akanji     Arca Santa     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Wole Oke     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Rafiu Ibrahim     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Mutawali     Isapa     Shururat Olatinwo     AbdulQowiy Olododo     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Rapheal Ashaolu     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Kwara Central     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Earlyon Technologies     Moremi High School     AGF Abdulrazaq     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Playing Host     Transition Implementation Committee     Mohammed Saidu     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Ilorin Muslim Community     Mahfouz Adedimeji     A.E. Afolabi     Congress For National Consensus     Abdulraheem Olesin     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Kwara Apc     Abdulfatai Baakini     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Olushola Saraki     Henry Olaosebikan     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     General Hospital, Ilorin     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Chikanda     All Peoples Party     Sanitation Exercise     Frootify     Sheikh Ariyibi     Iqra Books     Aisha Buhari     Sola Saraki University     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Bareke     Face Masks     Oye Tinuoye     Kaiama     LAK Jimoh     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     ER-KANG Mining     Aso Ofi     Grillo     Lanre Olosunde     Yusuf Abubakar     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Adamu B. Yaqubu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

AbdulRahman Saad     Habeeb Saidu     Waheed Ibrahim     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Quranic Recitation Competition     Assayomo     KWASIEC     ITEM 7     Baakini     Zara Umar     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Ajuloopin     Chief Of Staff     Kwara State University Of Education     Aliyu Muhammed     Kabir Shagaya     Abraham Ojo     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     IEDPU     Ilorin East     Minimum Wage     Saka Asiat Ayinke     N-Power     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Forgo Battery     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Saliu Tunde Bello     Jide Ashonibare     Saliu Mustapha     Third Estate     Mukhtar Shagaya     Alliance For Democracy     TIIDELab     Oko     Raji AbdulRasaq     NFAI     Michael Ologundea     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Centre For Digital Economy     Razak Atunwa     Na\'Allah     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     CACOVID     Irepodun     Shaaba Lafiagi     Mamatu Abdullahi     Jalala     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Olokoba Sulyman     Abdulraufu Mustapha     CELF     Oyin-Zubair     Lai Gobir     Salake     Aminat Omodara     Vasolar     Iponrin     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     SAPZ Project     Mubarak Oladosu     Theophilus Oyebiyi     COVID     Tunde Yusuf     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Quarry Royal Valley     PharmAccess Foundation     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Shero     Tunde Kazeem     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade