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Mental Health: Youth Ministry Seeks Collaboration Toward Tobacco-Free Society
Joel Ajayi
In its effort to tame the harmful impact of tobacco smoking that poses a serious threat to human beings and the environment, especially among the Nigerian youth, the Ministry of Youth Ministry is keen to support sensitizing and creating public awareness on the implications of tobacco smoking.
While speaking in Abuja on Friday when she played host to the Regional Director, of the Tobacco Control Program (AFRO) Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids CTFK Bintou Camara in her office, the Minister of Youth Development Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim said that the issue of tobacco smoking has become a challenge to the nation and there is need for partnership to sensitize many Nigerians, especially the youth on the danger of it.
She expressed that the implication of this menace is huge as it always leads to lung cancer and untimely death.
According to her, Adolescent health is an area that we hope to focus on as a ministry and as a government in this administration, adolescence is easily influenced so, we must be proactive in putting mechanisms in place to nail most of the adolescent challenges
“Today, Tobacco smoking among small kids has become one of our challenges and we understand that we must build a partnership and collaboration for awareness advocacy and to let tobacco companies understand the impact of this product on young people.
“Yes we have a National Tobacco Act that bans smoking in public and workplaces, we must understand that where one person’s right stop remains where the starting point for another person’s right.”
She, however, pledged that the Ministry under her watch will leave no stone unturned to ensure wider engagement of all stakeholders and get the best approach for better action.
Earlier in her remarks, the Regional Program and Director of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Bintou Camara said tobacco is a gateway to other drugs and there is a need to nail it in the bud.
“We are facing an enemy that others don’t face and that enemy is tobacco smoking which is now the order of the day among the youth and kids
“We understand that Nigeria has a larger number of youth that is why we are here to seek your support in raising more awareness and educating people on the serious implications in order to have a healthy country of our desire.” She said
However, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is a leading force organization in the fight to reduce tobacco use and its deadly toll in Nigeria.
CTFK works in over 60 countries in the world to advocate for public policies to prevent kids from smoking, help smokers quit, and protect everyone from secondhand smoke.
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Musawa Seeks Broader Significance for June 12
Joel Ajayi
The Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa, Esq., says June 12 must be remembered as a sacrifice that gave Nigerians democracy, beyond its status as a public holiday.
In a statement signed on Saturday by the Senior Assistant Media & Publicity to the Honourable Minister,Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy Dr Nneka Ikem Anibeze Ph.D in Abuja.
Musawa stated this at the national premiere of “MKO”, a film on Chief Moshood Abiola, held at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, Lagos, to mark Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary.
She said 33 years after June 12, 1993, many young Nigerians know it only as a holiday, but the film turns it back into memory.
“For too many young Nigerians, June 12 is simply a public holiday. This film tells them that our democracy did not arrive by chance. It was fought for. It was defended. It was paid for. This documentary is in honour of the heroes of June 12, the men and women who gave their lives for the mandate of June 12, 1993 and for the democracy Nigeria enjoys today,” the Minister said.
Musawa hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Host, for his participation in the June 12 struggle and paying the price in exile, adding that Nigeria’s creative industry will keep telling the story of its democracy with courage.
“Through film and the creative economy, Nigeria will preserve its history. A nation that forgets its past loses its way to the future. Nigeria has a story and our story deserves to be told,” she said.
Earlier, the director of the investigative documentary, Ose Oyamendan, said the film was in honour and memory of heroes who fought for Nigeria’s democracy.
“There was Hope ’93 and now there is Renewed Hope. There was a man who sacrificed his life so we may have democracy and there is a man who almost lost his life fighting for democracy who is now helping build a lasting democracy.
“There was a great man called Bashorun MKO Abiola and there is now another great man called Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Democrats. Nationalists. Nation builders. Leaders of men and women. We must never forget our story. We must always honour and remember our heroes,” Oyamendan said.
Top government officials including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the wife of the President Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Chief of Staff to the President Rt. Femi Gbajabiamila, state Governors, members of the National Assembly, Ministers and other distinguished dignitaries attended the premiere.
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