Oyo To Strengthen Counselling Services, Tackle Drug Abuse, Youth Delinquency

Oyo State government has expressed its readiness to strengthen collaboration with relevant stakeholders and professional bodies to promote preventive counselling and other interventions aimed at curbing drug abuse, delinquent behaviours and other social vices among young people in the State.

Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Olusegun Olayiwola, stated this when he received members of the Counselling Practitioners’ Council of Nigeria (CPCN) in his office, emphasising the importance of preventive counselling in schools as a strategic measure for safeguarding the future of school-age children.

Olayiwola noted that the state government would welcome initiatives capab...