Parents, teachers, students and other stakeholders have been invited to nominate any educational leader to be celebrated as a Safe School Hero.
The nomination is expected to be accompanied with a profile of his or her interventions and initiatives before October 20, 2018.
The call for nomination was made by the Chairman, National Organising Committee, 2018 Safe School Leadership Empowerment Conference and Awards, Ike Onyechere.
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He explained that Nigeria’s Safe School Heroes would be celebrated during the 2018 Safe School Awards scheduled to hold on Thursday, 15th November, 2018.
The venue of the event is the National Centre for Women Development, Abuja, and it will serve as climax of this year’s National Safe School Leadership Empowerment Conference.
Speaking on the programmes, he said, “Safe School Empowerment Project, (SASEP) researched, developed and launched (at the National Universities Commission Auditorium) on 1st August 2014 with the support and facilitation of emergency management and security agencies including Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, Federal Fire Service, National Emergency Management Agency.
“The implementation of the Project has been supported and facilitated by other critical stakeholders including: Nigerian Army, UNESCO, State Governments, Tertiary Institutions, Basic and Secondary Education Boards, National Pension Commission, Premium Pensions Limited. The Project is jointly coordinated by Safe School Academy International in collaboration with Exam Ethics Marshals International and Ethics Resource Centre Nigeria.”
He spoke of those considered to be heroes of Safe School Heroes: “Across the country, some high performance Heads of Governments, Education Ministries and Agencies and Staff of Public and Private Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Institutions supported by security agencies are courageously rising to the occasion and taking actions. They refuse to hide behind excuses of “dwindling resources,” “lack of funding” or “security is the responsibility of Government and Security Agencies.” They are taking the initiative, in the understanding that security is everybody’s business, to resist criminals that have chosen schools as their targets of choice. These are Nigeria’s Safe School Heroes and they stand commended.”
