Re-Engineering the Youths Against Drug Abuse and Social Vices in Keffi Through Neuro-Linguistics Programming

Abstract

Nigerian nation like many other developing countries of the world has faced by a number of socio-economic issues over the years. Some of such problems includes social vices like armed robbery, kidnapping, terrorism, cybercrime among others. Apparently, a number of factors including drug abuse among youths are responsible for these problems. In fact, many studies have argued that drug abuse and trafficking are social menace threatening world peace and security, because drug itself is a potential source of world violence. As such, many means including agencies like NDLEA and other sister agencies have been employed by Nigerian government in order to curb issues of drug abuse across the country. But the problems seems to be on the increase. As such the need to investigate about more ways of fighting drug abuse among youths is sacrosanct. It is based on this backdrop that this research is undertaken. The work intends to investigate the potential of Neuro-Linguistic Programming in re-engineering the youths against drug abuse and social vices using Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria as a case study. To this end, the work employed survey design of the quantitative research methodology to gather and analyse data in to achieve its aim and objectives. The results revealed that drug abuse and youths and social vices are some of the challenges confronting Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, and Neu-Linguistic Programming has great potential to address the problems for socio-economic development of the area. Hence, conclusion and recommendations were made based on the findings.