Afrigather Celebrities who many younger folks look as much as as position fashions are utilizing their affect to brazenly normalise substance abuse. From music to film stars, they’ve unknowingly normalised this dangerous behavior with out regard for his or her viewers and with no system to examine them.
Because of this it has change into crucial for Nigerians to come back collectively to boost consciousness on substance abuse, and MTN is championing the struggle towards substance abuse, beginning with the youthful technology and youngsters extra prone to being simply influenced.
MTN Basis, with its Anti-Substance Abuse Programme (ASAP) by a quiz competitors introduced collectively eighteen faculties throughout the nation with three college students from every college answering questions on substance abuse whereas studying in circumstances the place they’d no concept what the questions have been about.
On June 6, 9 faculties went by 5 rounds of questions in two segments which narrowed down the numbers to 5 faculties, with PTA/NADP Secondary Faculty Lafia taking the highest spot and rising prime of their group.
Authorities Women Secondary Faculty Abakpa Nike Enugu and Authorities Women Secondary Faculty Yola took the 2nd and third spots respectively, after efficiently going by a good race of questions concerning medicine and substance abuse.
A second spherical, with 9 totally different faculties, was held on June 7, 2023, with Anglican Women Grammar Faculty, Benin, Katsina Faculty, and Olivet Baptist Excessive Faculty, Oyo, incomes the identical rating that earned them the highest 3 positions.
All of the six faculties who moved to the ultimate spherical could be going to Abuja for the ultimate competitors in an all-sponsored journey by MTN for the final leg slated for June 23, 2023.
In accordance with Dr. Ngozi Madubuike, one of many moderators of the quiz competitors, the aim of the quiz was information acquisition. She stated, ‘An important factor is being drug-free, it’s not about coming first, it’s about holding on to your shallowness.’
Chigbu Odoemelam, a decide on the panel, corroborated this assertion as he stated to the scholars, ‘The essence of this competitors is to coach you on methods to avoid medicine. You have got been empowered mentally and psychologically, it’s now left so that you can determine what half is extra useful.’
The 4 hours quiz competitors was moderated by Dr. Ngozi Madubuike and Mrs. Abimbola Adewumi, whereas Chigbu Odoemelam, alongside different judges, compiled the ultimate outcomes of the competitors.
MTN ASAP has been held yearly since 2019 to commemorate the Worldwide Day In opposition to Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (World Drug Day) on June 26.
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