VC raises alarm over drug abuse among admission seekers

The Vice Chancellor of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Professor Noah Yusuf, has advised other VCs in the country to screen students on drug use immediately after admission before they mixed with and influenced innocent ones.

In his speech at the 12th convocation ceremony of the university, Prof Yusuf said some fresh school leavers who recently got admission into Al-Hikmah tested positive for drugs.

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He said, “It was painful to the management to discover that students who just finished secondary school a few months ago and sat for the university qualifying examination, got duly admitted, only to test positive for drugs two weeks during the registration procedure.

“The irony of it all is that the parents admitted that the children are under their care and tutelage! If such a fresher who tested positive for drugs was not discovered through the rigorous admission screening at the onset, the multiplier effects in four or five years of his stay in the university would spell great disaster.