{"id":164564,"date":"2025-05-27T21:58:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/childrens-day-abiodun-warns-against-bullying-charges-children-to-be-exemplary-leaders"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:15:01","slug":"childrens-day-abiodun-warns-against-bullying-charges-children-to-be-exemplary-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/childrens-day-abiodun-warns-against-bullying-charges-children-to-be-exemplary-leaders","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Day: Abiodun warns against bullying, charges children to be exemplary leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has charged children in the state to shun all forms of bullying and report such acts to their teachers, guardians as well as their parents to promote a saner society.<\/p>\n<p>The governor who was represented by his deputy, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, gave the charge during the 2025 Children\u2019s Day Celebration held at Oba\u2019s Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration themed, \u2018Stand up, speak up, building a Bully Free generation\u2019, was organized by the Office of the First Lady in collaboration with the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development.<\/p>\n<p>Abiodun explained that bullying could be any repeated action, whether through words, behavior or otherwise, that causes pain, fear or humiliation to someone else, be it physical, mental or emotional.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s helmsman reiterated his administration\u2019s commitment to building an education system that nurtures the mind, body and spirit of every child, noting that mechanisms had been put in place to checkmate all forms of bullying in the schools.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cBullying should never be tolerated, but the underlying issues must also be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Women Affairs and Education have been charged by this government to strengthen all efforts through school policies, advocacy, legal enforcement and public education to eradicate bullying from our schools and communities, as government could not do it alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In their goodwill messages, Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly, Oludaisi Elemide and Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Abayomi Arigbabu, charged children to speak up, adding that there are policies put in place both at federal and state level to fight against the menace.<\/p>\n<p>In her welcome address, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Adijat Adeleye, noted that the year\u2019s theme was a charge to action, summoning every parent, policymakers, teachers, peers and protectors of childhood to rise and defend the sacred dignity of every child.<\/p>\n<p>Adeleye asserted that through policy reform, proactive engagement and the support of major stakeholders, bullying would be a thing of the past and no child would remain vulnerable or voiceless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an unrelenting thief of joy, a silent saboteur of dreams, and a smuggler of scars into souls too young to bear them.<\/p>\n<p>We must no longer whisper about it. We must confront it. We must recognise its signs, unearth its roots and dismantle its enablers wherever they may hide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether in the hallways of our schools, the corners of our playgrounds or the depths of cyberspace, bullying must end and it must end with us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner advised parents and guardians to create homes where listening is louder than lecturing and where a child\u2019s silence triggers concern, not punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Responding on behalf of other students, Akindola Saidat and Ayanlowo Olagbenro, from Ebenezer Grammar School, Iberekodo as well as Brightway College, Abeokuta, respectively, promised to be agents of change by joining the government in its fight against bullying and to be good ambassadors of the state wherever they find themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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