The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has entered into a strategic corporate partnership with the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) through a new initiative tagged Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV) to build secure communities for young people.

According to NECA’s Director General, Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, the partnership reflects a shared commitment to creating safer communities, empowering young people, and addressing the root causes of social vices through preventive and non-kinetic approaches.

Oyerinde said that as part of the collaboration, NECA would support the police in its forthcoming International Day of the Girl-Child Summit 2025, billed to hold on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the Nigeria Police Resource Centre, Jabi, Abuja.

The summit, convened by POCACOV under the global theme “Girls’ Vision for the Future” and the Nigerian sub-theme “My Identity, My Power: Creating Safer Spaces for the Nigerian Girl Child,” will bring together over 500 secondary school girls, educators, parents, law enforcement officers, civil society organisations, and media partners.

Oyerinde further said that NECA would, among other things, provide facilitators for mentorship sessions across all requested panels and workshops and grant all participants access to NECA’s AI Fluency Course, delivered in collaboration with Microsoft through the International Organisation of Employers (IOE), to enable them to learn, onboard, and be certified in digital skills.

He stressed that the summit’s core objectives include equipping girls with leadership and digital skills, providing mentorship from credible female role models, encouraging creative expression by reinforcing the creed “My Identity, My Power,” and strengthening collaboration among schools, families, communities, and the Nigeria Police Force.