MTN To Educate 86,400 Students, 1,440 Teachers On Substance Abuse

MTN Foundation has revealed it plans to amended 86,400 nationalist secondary schoolhouse students and 1,440 teachers successful 12 states connected the interaction of substance abuse.

In his code during the stakeholders‘ store connected the implementation of the Anti-Substance Abuse Programme /Teachers Training held successful Kaduna yesterday, MTN Foundation typical Abubakar Zubairu said that since the instauration launched the Anti-Substance Abuse Programme (ASAP) successful 2019, it has educated millions of radical connected the dangers of cause maltreatment crossed the country.

Zubairu explained that the acquisition of radical was done done targeted campaigns and interventions successful collaboration with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the United Nations Office connected Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

MTN Foundation noted that nether the 2025 ASAP run activities, it advocates for walks crossed tertiary institutions successful Abuja, Enugu, Lagos, and Kano, bringing unneurotic implicit 1,400 stakeholders for the combat against substance abuse.

The instauration said, “We promote students to enactment successful our quiz competition; facilitate a stakeholders‘ store and a 3-day grooming for 60 secondary schoolhouse teachers successful Kaduna and Kwara; sensitise our communities done outreaches successful collaboration with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)”

“We purpose to amended 86,400 nationalist secondary schoolhouse students and 1,440 teachers, respectively, crossed 12 states connected the interaction of substance maltreatment – promote them to enactment successful our quiz competition; facilitate a stakeholders‘ store and a 3-day grooming for 60 secondary schoolhouse teachers successful Kaduna and Kwara; sensitise our communities done outreaches successful collaboration with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)”

“Our stakeholder convenings successful Lagos and Abuja further strengthened our multi-sectoral partnerships successful the combat against substance abuse.

“Another accomplishment is the concern secured with the NDLEA connected the 24/7 psycho- societal enactment helpline – 08010203040 – task aimed astatine connecting Nigerians to nonrecreational psychologists for escaped counseling enactment services successful assorted Nigerian languages.”

MTN Foundation added, “What occurrence means to america astatine MTN Foundation would beryllium the station grooming activities that would beryllium carried retired by the trained teachers done engagement and monitoring towards enabling sustained interaction to beryllium achieved with the students who we each expect to beryllium advocates/ambassadors of this initiative.

“The teachers‘ grooming successful Kaduna and Kwara states volition surely pave the mode for a integer model to beryllium developed due to the fact that the request to standard interaction connected this taxable substance is pertinent. We spot that each acrophobic stakeholders volition enactment this noble cause. Let‘s support up this combat against illicit cause usage arsenic we enactment towards a drug-free nation,” the instauration said.