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Plateau Waste free campaign launched as group tasks citizens to ensure Jos regain Tourism City
Various organisations and groups in Plateau State have at the weekend in Jos launched campaigns known as Plateau Waste Free Environment.
According to them, Plateau State is the Home of Peace and Tourism saying a waste-free Plateau is Possible and as such Jos City should regain its tourism status and maintain as one of the cleanest states in the country.
Amongst the Organisations which sponsored the Plateau waste-free campaigns are Tearfund Nigeria and supported by Renew Our World Nigeria, TASTE Nigeria, ACET Nigeria and Ignite House.
Others are Jos Green Center, NYSC, JayFm, TCNN and Plateau Environmental Protection and Sanitation Agency PEPSA.
The campaign launch started with a general cleaning of various roads from Old Airport Roundabout to the popular Terminus Market Jos.
The event was attended and witnessed by mostly members of Tearfund, TASTE Nigeria and Youths from the State who have shown commitment and zeal towards ensuring a Waste-free Plateau State.
Director General of the Plateau Environmental Protection and Sanitation Agency-PEPSA Mr. Samuel Nathaniel Dapiya speaking during the Campaign awareness Waste Free Plateau said there is a need to increase the level of awareness for people to know that a clean Plateau environment is Possible and call on all Plateau citizens to take the campaign seriously.
“This exercise is one to create an awareness that a clean plateau is possible, it’s an awareness project organized by TEARFUND and Renew our World Nigeria, TASTE and in partnership with other agencies and PEPSA is one of the co-sponsors of the awareness program.
He added that all citizens of the state should actively participate in the awareness of a waste-free Plateau, saying every citizen is a stakeholder in ensuring a clean Plateau State.
Also Speaking Mr Promise Salau from Tearfund noted the essence of the event was to create an awareness about the waste problem in the State.
“Plateau is known as the home of peace and tourism. and waste is not part of tourism as far as we are concerned as we are very passionate about it. And so therefore we are doing an awareness about waste-free plateau.
“The essence of this is to create awareness about the waste problem on the plateau and to tell the public that we are responsible for the waste we generate and that we should take more deliberate efforts and steps to manage waste properly.
He stressed that to achieve this, there will be a need to conduct continuous sensitization programs to change their mindset of people more especially transforming from bad practices to better ones.
On his part, Mr David Balka from TASTE Nigeria emphasized that all polythene bags and plastic bottles in the streets should be collected in an orderly manner and disposed.
“This is a campaign to say that a waste-free plateau is very possible if all people will come out in their number and then manage their waste at the household level and even on the street so that the waste is not being disposed of and discriminated.
He appealed to the public to take responsibility for the better management of waste, said if the citizens can contain their waste and di dispose of it appropriately then Jos City will be clean.
During the awareness exercise, some of the shop owners on the roads and Business owners also voluntarily joined the Waste-free Plateau campaign.
Senator representing Kogi East Senatorial District, Jibrin Isah Echocho, has congratulated Muslim faithful for the successful completion of this year Ramadan fast, urging them to celebrate the Sallah in love, and unity across our communities.
Echocho in a statement madeavailable to CAPITALPOST in Lokoja o Sunday, described the Ramadan period as stressful, but deserving, because it is the only period for spiritual reflection on abstinence from immorality, sincere sacrifice and supplications to Allah.
He added that, Ramadan symbolises Allah’s way of teaching humanity on virtuous living, where people keep away from all forms of comfort to appreciate what the less privileged experience and deprivation they suffers daily.
He task Muslims to extend the lessons of Ramadan to the way we live with our neighbours.
“Let’s seek peace at all times and promote unity of purpose in our society” the Lawmaker demanded.
“May the celebration brings sustainable peace to our homes, my district, Kogi State and Nigeria, he concluded.
The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio has commended Senator Basheer Lado, for redefining the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, stating that, for the first time in a long while, the office is fully meeting its expectations.
Speaking during his visit to the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters accompanied by distinguished senators, Akpabio described the visit as a significant step in strengthening Executive-Legislative relations.
He praised the Special Adviser and his team for maintaining the confidentiality of communications between the President and Senate, and also, ensuring a seamless flow of information. He further emphasized that the office is now more result-oriented.
Additionally, he acknowledged the office’s diligent efforts in tracking all Bills passed by the Senate and assented to by the President, underscoring its critical role in legislative efficiency.
Expressing his satisfaction, Akpabio noted that he and the Senate delegation were proud of the office’s achievements and looked forward to sustaining the existing cordial and productive relationship between the Executive and the Legislature throughout the administration.
In recognition of his exemplary leadership, Senator Lado presented an Award of Excellence to Senator Akpabio.
In his remarks, Senator Lado reaffirmed his commitment to fostering a harmonious working relationship between the Executive and the Legislature. He lauded Akpabio for his unwavering dedication to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda—defending it with clarity, articulating it with passion, and advancing it through legislative action.
Ahead of the 2025 political party Congresses, Plateau State Chapter of the Labour Party (LP) stakeholders has endorsed the defection of the candidate of the party in the 2023 general elections and the leader of Justice and Rebirth, Barr Gyang Zi SAN, to the All Progressive Congress (APC) with the view to key into the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.
They made the call in a communique issued at the end of the enlarge meeting of the stakeholders from Plateau North senatorial zone at the residence of Barr. Gyang Zi in Rayfield Jos.
The communique which was jointly signed by Dr. Ayiki Sati Director General, Justice and Rebirth and
Barr. Samuel Galadima- 2024 Chairmanship candidate of Jos East LGA among others said the call became imperative on the sideline of the leadership tussle at the National Level which violates the core principles and values for the formation of the Party as an alternative for Nigeria for the protection, sustenance of democracy and Social Justice.
They regretted that the leadership tussle has also divided the party into factions leaving party loyalists and supporters in the state of despondency and confusion not knowing where they belong.
Our correspondent reports that the gathering included LP candidates from the 2023/2024 general elections, party executives, and support groups from the six local government areas of the Northern Senatorial District.
Besides, the focus of the discussions was centered on the state of the Labour Party at both national and state levels and the need for political realignment ahead of the 2025 party congresses and conventions.
The stakeholders further frowned at the structural weaknesses in LP and resolved to advise Barr Gyang Zi, to leave the party and join the APC while expressing confidence that the APC would provide him with a platform to advance good governance in the state .
The communique also emphasized the importance of political consultations, particularly with APC leaders at both state and national levels. It called for collaboration with Plateau State APC leaders, including Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda Goshwe, Sen. Simon Bako Lalong, Sen. Diket Plang, and other party officials.
According to the communique, supporters of Barr Gyang Zi also pledged to mobilize grassroots support for the APC, stating that their leader’s defection would strengthen the party in the state.
They urged the APC leadership to formally receive Gyang Zi and his supporters into the party, marking their official transition from the Labour Party.
Stakeholders also reiterated the need for inclusive governance, ensuring that youths, women, and less privileged individuals are sidelined in the democratic process and accordingly officially denounced their membership in the Labour Party, declaring their support for the APC.
They assured that all LP structures aligned with Gyang Zi would follow suit, shifting their loyalty to the ruling party in the state and at the National level.
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