{"id":65604,"date":"2019-03-18T21:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=65604"},"modified":"2019-03-18T21:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T20:07:24","slug":"dickson-warns-nigerian-students-against-cultism-drug-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/dickson-warns-nigerian-students-against-cultism-drug-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickson Warns Nigerian Students Against Cultism, Drug Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m7573662034220433314\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has advised Nigerian<br \/>\nstudents to work hard to justify the investment their parents and<br \/>\ngovernment are making on them to become responsible citizens.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Mr Fidelis Soriwei,<br \/>\nsays the Governor gave the advice on Monday while interacting with<br \/>\nstudents of the University of Africa, Toru-Orua during an unscheduled<br \/>\ninspection of facilities at the institution.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoined the students to avoid cultism, drug abuse and other antisocial<br \/>\nbehaviours that are capable of truncating their good dreams for the<br \/>\nfuture.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Dickson who charged the academic community to be conscientious,<br \/>\nnoted that his administration was making targeted investment in the<br \/>\neducation sector as it remained the bedrock of sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>Fielding questions from workers and students of the University, he assured<br \/>\nthat government was doing everything within its reach to ensure that the<br \/>\nUAT distinguishes itself as a world class tertiary institution in the near<br \/>\nfuture.<\/p>\n<p>To promote self-reliance, he said the school curriculum had been carefully<br \/>\ndeveloped to inculcate entrepreneurship in the students for them to be<br \/>\npotential employers of labour even before graduation.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, the Governor noted that government had already donated the<br \/>\nSchool of Agriculture, Ofoni and the Bayelsa State Integrated Farms at<br \/>\nEbedebiri to the University.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Governor, &#8220;the vision of government is to turn out<br \/>\nquality products that would be sought after by well meaning organizations<br \/>\nboth within and outside the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this, he urged the students to take their academic and moral<br \/>\nlessons seriously with a view to contributing meaningfully towards the<br \/>\ndevelopment of Bayelsa and the country at large.<\/p>\n<p>He also advised them against the abuse of drugs which according to him was<br \/>\nharmful to their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Miss Okpoebi Tounaregha, a member of staff of the University,<br \/>\ncommended the Governor for his thoughtfulness in establishing the<br \/>\nuniversity.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Tounaregha noted that presence of the Institution would not only<br \/>\nenhance educational development in the state but also fast-track the<br \/>\nurbanization process of the host community.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor was accompanied on the inspection tour by the Vice Chancellor<br \/>\nof the University, Prof. Valentine Aletor, its Registrar, Mr Francis<br \/>\nOwusu-Mensah, Commissioner for Education, Hon Jonathan Obuebite, the<br \/>\nCommissioner for Works and Housing, Mr. Godwin Konyefa, among other top<br \/>\ngovernment functionaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has advised Nigerian students to work hard to justify the investment their parents and government are making on them to become responsible citizens.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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