The Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), will on Saturday host a landmark event in commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child.
The event will be held at the Nigeria Police Resource Centre, Jabi, Abuja.
The 2025 celebration is themed ‘Girls’ Vision for the Future,’ with a sub-theme ‘My Identity, My Power: Creating Safer Spaces for the Nigerian Girl Child.’
The celebration is aimed at empowering over 500 secondary school girls from JSS1 to SS3 through a one-day programme consisting of workshops, mentorship sessions, and creative expression challenges.
Speaking on the significance of the event, POCACOV National Coordinator, ACP Olabisi Okuwobi, said that empowering girls to embrace their unique identity and leadership potential is critical to curbing vices such as cultism, gender-based violence, cybercrime, and substance abuse.
This, the POCACOV National Coordinator stated, is in line with the preventive policing mandate of Inspector-General of Police, Dr Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun.
Key highlights of the celebration include: safe girl workshops on leadership, digital skills, and civic engagement, as well as mentorship and role model sessions with trailblazing women leaders from law enforcement, education, entrepreneurship, and technology.
Others are creative expression challenge debates, spoken word, art and drama spotlighting the sub-theme, and stakeholders’ roundtable discussion to strengthen partnerships for girl-child protection and empowerment nationwide.
ACP Okuwobi called on government agencies, private sector leaders, media partners, NGOs, schools, parents, and community stakeholders to join the movement to create safer spaces for the Nigerian girl child.
‘This year’s celebration is not just a one-day event; it is a call to action. When girls know their identity and power, they become unstoppable change-makers,’ the National Coordinator emphasised.
It will be noted that POCACOV is a community-oriented initiative of the Nigeria Police Force.