WAEC SSCE - Civic Education - 2024 (Essay)

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(a) Community service refers to a voluntary involvement or  participation  in processes and meaning of community services activities that  can add value and improve the quality of lives and living of the people in any community where  citizens resides.

(b) Benefits of communities services 

(i)speeds up development in the communities 

(ii) gives opportunity to individuals to serve humanity at community level.

(iii) promote unity /national integration /consensus building 

(iv) helps in building communal problems 

(v) cultivates effective followership.

(vi) cultivates leadership skills and values in citizens /residence /enhancement of skills 

(vii) promotes cooperation  /collaboration networking among stakeholders 

(xi) enhances political /popular participation  

(xii) promotes effective teamwork /building among community members

(xiii) minimizes conflicts /disputes /escalation of conflicts 

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Ways substance can be curbed  in various institutions of learning 

(i) placing /enforcement of a stiff penalty for drug-related offenses in schools

(ii) exposure to drug-related education in the school system 

(iii) Students should be taught moral and religious precepts and principles  

(iv) Access to hard drugs should be controlled by the school authority 

(v) Students should be encouraged to resist

(vi) An exemplary lifestyle by members of staff should be encouraged  

(vii) exposure of students to life coping is negative  peer pressure 

(viii) General awareness /media campaigns against substance abuse should be intensified 

(ix) There should be intensive counseling 

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(a) agencies responsible for curtailing human trafficking in Nigeria 

(i) National agencies for the prohibition of trafficking and persons (NAPTP)

(ii) the Nigerian  police 

(iii) school 

(iv) regional organization, eg, ECOWAS, etc

(v) religious organizations 

(vii) international organization, etc UNICAF

(b) Problems associated  with human trafficking in Nigeria 

(i) forced labour/child labour 

(ii)social stigmatization 

(iii) unwanted pregnancy 

(iv) trauma /depression /torture

(v) organ harvesting 

(vii) drug abuse /drug trafficking 

(viii)forced prostitution /sexual abuse

(ix) denial of access to education  

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Challenges  facing democracy in West Africa 

(i) weak or inadequate inter-party democracy 

(ii) Godfatherism in party politics 

(iii) poverty 

(iv) poor justice delivery system 

(v) high cost of governance

(vi) infrastructure decay