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  • Feb, Sat, 2020
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NGO charges families on improved parenting

 

 

NGO charges families on improved parenting

By Augusta Uchediunor

Lagos, Feb. 15, 2020 (NAN) Edna Dafe, Director of Women’s Board, an NGO, on Saturday advised families to monitor children closely to help curb the increasing social vices among youths in the country.

Dafe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that parents needed to improve on their parental and supervisory roles on children and wards to guide them to responsible adulthood.

“The family is a unit where every member of the society comes from and integrates.

“The family should be the first check in grooming and monitoring children, as well as instilling good virtues in them

“If the family is well informed and has the right ideology, then maybe we won’t be seeing all these anti-social behaviour happening now.

“So, there is need for parents to be involved in their children’s activities,’’ she said.

According to her, many parents have engaged in many activities to make ends meet because of the economic situation in the country, thus abandoning their parental roles.

“Nowadays, we have many nannies or other people who are the primary educators of children.

“But if you are not there to see what the children are learning, what their peers are teaching them, the type of the culture they imbibe and bring in, then the problem starts.

“Before you know it, they have started taking drugs or smoking and the parents are not aware of it,” Dafe said.

She said that if there was increased peace in families, it would ultimately impact on the larger society.

“The mother, being the primary person to bring everybody together, has to see that even if she has a job that is demanding, she also has to create time to know what the children are doing.

“Same goes to fathers, not only providing financially, they also have that duty to also mould the children properly, direct and chastise them with love.

“Other well-meaning members of the family should also be involved in children upbringing,” she added. (NAN)

ANU/VIV/WOJ

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Editing by Vivian Ihechu/Wale Ojetimi

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General news

AMAC reunites 100 marriages in 2018 – Official

AMAC reunites 100 marriages in 2018 – Official
By Bukola Adewumi
Marriages
Abuja, Jan. 17, 2019 (NAN) The Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) in Federal Capital Territory said it resolved and reunited not less than 100 marriages that were at the edge of collapse.
Mrs Ramatu Abdulrahman, the Head, Social Welfare department of the council, disclosed this in interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.
She noted that the reconciliation of broken marriages was a great success on the part of AMAC because “when families are united, the nation is united,” said the official.
Abdulrahman expressed optimism that more results would be achieved this year if the Chairman of the council, Mr Abdullahi Candido, provides the department with better working tools.
She regretted that most residents have been taking their challenges to the wrong places where they could not get help.
She noted, for instance, that most couples who had problems take such to friends, family members, religious leaders, traditional rulers or courts for intervention, and this most times do not end well.
“We thank God, now people have started knowing more about us and our activities in the department. We were able to settle more than 100 marriages in 2018.’’
She said that the issue of divorce was very common among young couples, sometimes after marriage of two, three months or one year they come to us that they want to divorce over little issues.
“When we go into details we discovered that the interference of third parties was responsible for some breakup of most marriages.
“Another problem we discovered is the fact that many married couples refused to go for counselling before they were joined together either in the church, mosque or court.
“God he is helping us to settle some marriage problems, we have NGOs that we partner with as a form of networking and we go for home visitation unexpectedly to see how the couples are doing,’’ she said.
Abdulrahman advised couples to prepare their minds psychologically before they contract their marriages.
“This office we are using now is not too conducive, sometimes we have more than three to four cases to attend to and we like to give our client some secrecy.
“We need a social case room that is well equipped with recording items and comfortable seats because people can always deny what has been said if not recorded.
“We also need a comfortable place where our clients can sit and relax so that they will have confidence in the social workers and they will open up to us,’’ she said.
Abdulrahman, however, appealed for separate allocation of funding to assist the social welfare department achieve its obligations.
She attributed major collapse of marriages to lack of advice or counselling. (NAN)
BOL/MST
Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola

Health

Red Cross reunites 610 displaced families in North-East – Official

 

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Families

By Talatu Maiwada

Abuja, May 10, 2017 (NAN) The Nigeria Red Cross Society (NRCS) on Wednesday said it reunited no fewer than 610 families displaced due to the insurgency North-East between January and March, this year.

Mr Nwakpa Okorie, Head of Communications of the society, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

According to Okorie, the families are reunited at various locations such as Madagali, Danboa, Gwoza, and Maiduguri, among others.

He said NRCS was an auxiliary organisation to public authorities in humanitarian intervention in the areas of health, disaster mitigation and social welfare.

Okorie further explained that restoring family links was, however, part of the core mandate of the organisation.

“Numerous families in the North-East of Nigeria, including children and arrested persons, have lost contact with their relatives because of the ongoing conflict.

“NRCS puts in so much effort to restore contact between them and their relatives and where possible, reunite them.

“The families waiting for the news of their loved ones are also supported to cope with their absence,’’ he said.

According to him, the society also provides free phone services to internally displaced persons in various camps and persons in host communities searching for their loved ones.

He said the phones were used to disseminate information to their loved ones as well as to communicate with them, thereby reducing anxiety and depression.

“In restoring family links, we send Red Cross messages which indicate an alert in various locations.

“We also provide tracing forms distributed among children, fathers and women searching for their relatives with detailed information such as addresses and pictures, which would aid in tracing and reunification. (NAN)

TIM/DOR/DUA 

Edited by Nyisom Dore/Dada Ahmed