{"id":14766,"date":"2024-01-31T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/youth-ministry-seeks-partnership-with-ndlea-to-curb-drugs-abuse\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T16:02:50","slug":"youth-ministry-seeks-partnership-with-ndlea-to-curb-drugs-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/youth-ministry-seeks-partnership-with-ndlea-to-curb-drugs-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth ministry seeks partnership with NDLEA to curb drugs abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Youth Development has sought for collaboration with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to curb rising cases of drug abuse among Nigerian youths.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Youth Development, Jamila Ibrahim, made this appeal when she visited NDLEA chairman, Buba Marwa on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>She said the government would persistently rehabilitate drug abuse victims and train them in skills to make them become more useful to the society.<\/p>\n<p>She admonished young Nigerians against indulgence in drug abuse, which, she said could ruin their future.<\/p>\n<p>The minister expressed optimism that the Federal Government would soon launch the National Youth Development Bank to empower youths.<\/p>\n<p>Responding, Marwa expressed regret at the level of drug addiction among Nigerian youths.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the urgent need for all stakeholders, particularly government\u2019s Ministries, Departments and Agencies to strengthen partnership to curb the menace.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership, he said, would equally check illicit drug trafficking and drug-related offences causing insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Marwa noted with appreciation the `Renewed Hope\u2019 agenda of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration to lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty and make life meaningful for citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Youth ministry seeks partnership with NDLEA to curb drugs abuse<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Ministry of Youth Development has sought for collaboration with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to curb&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386,15],"tags":[391,180],"class_list":["post-14766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ndlea","category-news","tag-ndlea","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}