NDLEA, SAF frown at increasing use of hard drugs among youths
THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA and Soledotun Abdulkarim-Yusuf Foundation, SAF, have frown at the increasing use of hard drugs among the youths, including teenagers in the country. The Assistant Superintendent of Narcotics in NDLEA in Lagos, Mr Perter Akinbode and Mrs. Soledotun Abdulkarim-Yusuf, Founder/Chairman of the foundation expressed the concern in Lagos, at an awareness programme organised by the Foundation in collaboration with NDLEA. According to Akinbode, the involvement of youths, including teenagers has assumed a frightening dimension while ingenuity has been introduced into the drug abuse menace. On her part, Latifat Fatola, who with the NDLEA advised participants to take good advantage of the training workshop, while pointing out that the negative way of social media has open the way for social menace as youths were exposed to hard drugs through videos of music, movies and other associated features in the entertainment industry. Speaking earlie...