Ogun police warns schoolgirls against cultism, cybercrime, child marriage

Ogun State Command, nether the enactment of CP Bode Ojajuni, has warned schoolgirls successful the authorities to steer wide of cultism, cybercrime, cause maltreatment and kid marriage.

The informing was issued during a sensitisation run to people the 2026 International Day of the Girl Child, held astatine Abeokuta Girls’ Grammar School and Baptist Girls’ College, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.

The campaign, carried retired done the Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), was led by the State Coordinator, ASP Opeyemi Oluborode.

While addressing the students connected the dangers of cultism, cause abuse, cybercrime and antagonistic adjacent influence, Oluborode warned that specified vices could truncate their acquisition and aboriginal aspirations.

He said the outreach aligned with this year’s theme, “End Child Marriage & Invest successful Girls’ Rights,” and emphasised the request to support girls against kid marriage, favoritism and abuse, arsenic provided for nether the Child Rights Act.

Speaking connected the topic, “Breaking Boundaries: Shaping the Future of the Girl Child,” Oluborode sensitised the students connected sex equality, entree to acquisition and ineligible safeguards, urging them to defy discrimination, maltreatment and harmful practices.

He advised the girls to clasp education, subject and self-confidence, noting that sex should ne'er beryllium a barri...