Lagos intensifies campaign against SGBV, bullying, cultism in schools

The Lagos State Government has intensified its run against intersexual and gender-based violence, SGBV, bullying, cultism and cause maltreatment successful schools, informing that the rising societal problems endanger the safety, intelligence well-being and aboriginal of children crossed the state.

Speaking on Wednesday during a sensitisation programme held successful Alausa, Ikeja, the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Jamiu Tolani Alli-Balogun, said the authorities would proceed to fortify kid extortion policies, schoolhouse information initiatives and counselling services to guarantee that students larn successful a unafraid and supportive environment.

The programme, themed “Zero Tolerance for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and Protecting Our Future: The Role of Students and Teachers successful Combating Bullying, Cultism and Drug Abuse,” brought unneurotic acquisition stakeholders, students and authorities officials.

Alli-Balogun stated that schools should service not lone arsenic centres of world learning but besides arsenic institutions for gathering responsible, disciplined and morally upright citizens.

“Education is not simply astir acquiring world knowledge; it is astir nurturing responsible, confident, morally u...