Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello earlier today, Thursday May 27, advised children in the state to be focused, disciplined and shun all forms of social vices, in order to make their parents and the country proud.
Our Kogi State Correspondent, reports that Bello gave the advice at a programme organized to celebrate the 2021 National Children's Day at the Lokoja Confluence Stadium, by the Kogi State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development.
Bello, who was represented by Secretary to the Kogi State Government, SSG, Dr. (Mrs.) Afolashade Arike Ayoade, thanked God on behalf of the children for keeping them alive and healthy to witness another Children's Day.
He prayed God to continue to keep the children, while advising them to do their best, shun all forms of social vices and be disciplined.
The governor, urged the children to study very hard so as to become great personalities in life, make their parents and the state proud.
He challenged parents to train their children to have the fear of the Lord, to enable them have great reward.
Also speaking, the State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Fatima Kabir Buba, thanked God for the enablement to celebrate the Children's Day without obstruction as experienced in 2020.
According to her, the day was first celebrated in Nigeria in 1964, raising awareness for issues that affect children and to appreciate the fact that they are the future of our societies.
She stressed that all children, irrespective of their status or situation, should enjoy their rights to survival and development as enshrined in the Child Rights Act (CRA 2003).
The Commissioner added: ''It is on this note that I welcome everyone once again to celebrate with our future, our pride on this auspicious occasion''.
Highlights of the Children's Day activity were Match-past and ethnic cultural dance by children from primary and secondary schools across Lokoja metropolis.
Police Children Primary School and Teachers’ Home International College, Lokoja, emerged first positions in the match-past, in primary and secondary categories respectively.
One of the students, Tosin John, thanked the State Government and the Ministry of Women Affairs, for organizing what she described as a befitting activity for them to celebrate the Children's Day.
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