Enugu wins N100m Model Green State Award

…First Lady, Senator Tinubu Unveils Nationwide RHI Green Nigeria Challenge

… Enugu is clean, Says First Lady

… Mrs. Mbah: We’ll support pushing

Enugu State has bagged a N100 cardinal grant arsenic the cleanest authorities arsenic the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, unveiled the Renewed Hope Initiative, RHI, Green Nigeria Challenge.

The Challenge is simply a nationwide biology contention aimed astatine families, younker groups, communities, and states to prosecute successful histrion planting and biology cleanliness.

She unveiled the Challenge astatine the quarterly gathering with Wives of State Sovernors and Coordinators of the RHI astatine the Presidential Villa connected Wednesday.

The Challenge, with the motto “Go Green Today for a Greener Tomorrow,” is successful 3 categories: Households, Communities and States, offering a expansive prize of N20 cardinal for the best-performing household, N50 cardinal for the champion community, and N100 cardinal for the champion state.

At the event, the First Lady presented a cheque for N100 cardinal arsenic good arsenic a plaque to the woman of Enugu State governor, Mrs. Nkechinyere Mbah, who received the honour connected behalf of Enugu arsenic “Model Green State.”

“They earned it. It is not lone successful planting trees, but successful biology cleanliness. If you spell to Enugu, Enugu is clean,” the First Lady emphasized.

She recounted a speech with the woman of the Enugu State governor, praising the proactive attack of the authorities to tackling biology issues.

“When she sees thing that the politician doesn’t privation to spot — immoderate litter astir — they telephone and hole it immediately. And I deliberation that’s the champion mode to go,” she added.

The RHI Green Nigeria Challenge is divided into 3 categories. The Household Category focuses connected 11 bluish states (Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Yobe, and Zamfara) susceptible to desertification, encouraging histrion planting with a minimum of 1 histrion per household to qualify.

The Community Category invites section governments, younker groups, schools, and NGOs nationwide to reclaim and alteration degraded oregon abandoned spaces into parks, gardens, and eco-friendly areas.

The State Category involves contention among states (excluding Enugu, which has already been rewarded) based connected histrion sum on large roads and interior streets, encouraging histrion planting.

On the information down the initiative, the First Lady of Nigeria shared her idiosyncratic past and inspiration.

“As a biologist, I’ve ever loved to spell clean. During the clip my hubby was politician of Lagos State, I utilized to spell cleanable clogged drains. I was young, and I utilized a batch of energy,” Senator Tinubu said.

She emphasized starring by example, saying, “People person to spot you bash what you privation them to do. And it’s much appealing and charismatic that way.”

Reflecting connected her acquisition astatine an planetary level, Senator Oluremi Tinubu recalled attending the G20 Summit successful Brazil with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“One of the things they are going to beryllium looking astatine is integrative waste. Every state is buying into it, cleaning their oceans and waterways due to the fact that the fauna successful the oversea is being affected by discarded dumped into the sea,” she recounted.

The First Lady highlighted ongoing efforts by the RHI to code this issue, which see RHI’s collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment.

“We are moving with the Minister of Environment. We’ve had respective meetings, including 1 successful Lagos, and teams person visited Ghana to larn more,” she said.

She disclosed that the RHI volition beryllium moving with the Ministry to found Environmental Clubs for Senior Secondary Schools and Environmental Societies for Tertiary Institutions with its modalities inactive being fine-tuned.

Speaking to newsmen, Mrs. Mbah thanked the Nigerian First Lady for the designation arsenic good arsenic her husband, Governor Peter Mbah, the authorities functionaries and the radical of the authorities for their efforts that earned the authorities the award.

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