In a bid to check drug abuse on campus, the University of Lagos has provided a drug test kit in its medical centre to examine students suspected to be on hard drugs.

Prof. Rahaman Bello, outgoing Vice-Chancellor of the institution, confirmed this at a forum with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

Bello said that the initiative was necessary because drug abuse was on the increase in the nation’s tertiary institutions.

“Drug abuse is a major problem for every institution, particularly, those in the cities. We have gone ahead in the University of Lagos to address it.

“With the test kit, anyone who is suspected, his or her urine or blood depending on what we want to do, is collected for test.
“The thing about drug is that when you take it, it will be in your blood for a long time, so you cannot say , I did not use it once the test kit detects it.
“Before, we start using the test kit, everyone we picked denied using drug since we could not find any evidence,” he said.

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According to him, with the test kit, the university has been able to pin down victims, but granted them amnesty.

He said that although the university’s regulation provided that any student found dealing with drug should be expelled, the management had to warn and rehabilitate them.

“With the rehabilitation, the victims are given two or three semesters to ‘get clean’. By this, we mean they will visit the medical centre on monthly basis to get tested.
“If after two or three visits, you are found clean, we will admit you back to the system, if not you are sent out.
“This we do not to unnecessarily punish them, but to assist them to find a way to regain themselves,” he said.

Bello said that about 100 students of the university were detected to be using hard drugs in 2016.

Source : https://www.millitime.com/unilag-begins-testing-students-hard-drugs/

dedicate this FTC to all manure fans

this season nah 4-0

weed is life

hmmm ok
were we suppose to expect something different

Nice initiative.

First it was "UNILAG is the only university in Nigeria with permanent accreditation for law".

Next, it was "UNILAG becomes first Nigerian University to get a TV license".

Now, it's the first Nigerian University to start testing students for use of hard drugs.

Who else thinks UNILAG really deserves all the hype it gets? I'm not asking bloody haters.

EDIT: To all quoting me to say UNILAG isn't the first with drug tests, I agree with you. You can now refute the first two feats I mentioned. Bloody haters!

Igbo
Trams
Codeine..

Say no drugs!

Anyways.

GIVE IT UP FOR OUR...........
LEADERS OF TOMORROW !!

Awon Omo Wobey

Greatest Nigerian Students!!


Gbo gbo

Now dat I have booked space, I have nothing to add to the topic!

Umu codine carry go

dy will catch more..
soon we go dy test out politician for hard drugs, weytin dy happen for Rivers I no understand

Just like I said before,


Unilag is no more a citadel of learning but now a training ground for perverse showbiz and sundry vices.

Marijuana is NOT a hard drug.

Issa serious something

Dats uni for u

Good move. Hard drugs has eaten deep into the minds of a lot of youth in tertiary institutions.

Some even mix different brands(without considering consequences) just to show off their drinking capacities.

Only God can save the upcoming generation.

V.C--What r dey drugging themselves for



Me--- To sing FIA by Davido in d exam hall....

Which kinda of hard drugs.
Coke
Marijuana
Sk
Tramadol
Rephnol
Diesel
Codeine
Or which one

make them come EKiti

Awon omo wobe will not like this.Nice one from unilag.

only 100? them try na

webincomeplus:
First it was "UNILAG is the only university in Nigeria with permanent accreditation for law".

Next, it was "UNILAG becomes first Nigerian University to get a TV license".

Now, it's the first Nigerian University to start testing students for use of hard drugs.

Who else thinks UNILAG really deserves all the hype it gets? I'm not asking bloody haters.

Before UNILAG thought of this idea,so many private universities in the country have put it to use. Why do you think they expel students in private universities on a constant basis? That's cos some of them test positive to drug tests when being suspected, so, UNILAG should brag about being the first public university to do so and not the First in Nigeria as u think.

eyin
omo
wobe

This bad belle op sha doesn't want the unilag tv gist to digest at all... Mtcheew, unilag and hard drugs tho, ozolua people wld occupy 60percent, 20 percent from high rise and ransome kuti, the rest from eni njoku shodeinde and elkanemi

Good development. FG should do same with the worst police in the world too.

NwaAmaikpe:


Just like I said before,


Unilag is no more a citadel of learning but now a training ground for perverse showbiz and sundry vices.

so because 100 out of an estimate of 40,000 students or more tested positive to drugs in 2016 the whole system is bad. you need a knock on the head for this level of foolishness.

I believe one day you will make sense

Oh...

Just 100?
They should go to FUTO, they would think their test kit is broken to a default +ve

Pere!

webincomeplus:
First it was "UNILAG is the only university in Nigeria with permanent accreditation for law".

Next, it was "UNILAG becomes first Nigerian University to get a TV license".

Now, it's the first Nigerian University to start testing students for use of hard drugs.

Who else thinks UNILAG really deserves all the hype it gets? I'm not asking bloody haters.

NDA has been doing that for ages broza

I don't know what students gain in this hard drugs.
It's a welcome development from the institution.