Fed Govt Promotes Workers’ Wellness Through Fitness Exercise

The Federal Government has intensified efforts to beforehand a steadfast and productive workforce done an consciousness and fittingness workout for civilian servants successful Abuja.

The initiative, portion of the monthly Federation of Public Service Games (FEPSGA) Walking and Jogging Exercise, featured escaped crab screening and wide wellness checks for workers from Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).

Speaking astatine the lawsuit held implicit the play astatine the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Daju Kachollom, said the authorities is committed to tackling the menace of crab successful Nigeria done sustained consciousness and aboriginal detection.

Describing the run arsenic “epoch-making,” Kachollom disclosed that Nigeria records implicit 127,000 caller crab cases annually, with bosom crab accounting for astir 24 per cent.

She expressed interest that implicit 80 per cent of crab cases successful the state are detected astatine precocious stages, dissimilar successful developed nations, wherever aboriginal screening improves endurance rates.

“The disparity is clear; portion developed countries person a higher incidence, low- and middle-income countries similar Nigeria person higher mortality due to the fact that of a mediocre screening culture. This is wherefore we indispensable act,” she said.

Kachollom reaffirmed the ministry’s committedness to starring the combat against crab and different diseases successful enactment with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

She added that the upcoming National Council connected Health volition propulsion for establishing State Cancer Control Programmes and regular screening services astatine the sub-national level.

“Cancer is real, it is ravaging, and it is present with us. The cheapest and astir effectual effect is prevention done manner modification and regular screening. Early detection saves lives,” she emphasised.

The screening workout covered breast, cervical, prostate, and colorectal cancers and checked for humor pressure, humor sugar, hepatitis B and C, and assemblage wide index.

In her keynote address, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack, said the run goes beyond fitness—it symbolises the civilian service’s committedness to “health, life, and hope.”

“Without health, determination is nary service. Without health, determination is nary progress,” she stated, stressing that a steadfast and resilient civilian work is captious to advancing the administration’s improvement goals.

Represented by Mrs Patience Nwakuso Oyekunle, Permanent Secretary, Service Welfare Office, Walson-Jack urged civilian servants to instrumentality vantage of the escaped screenings, lamenting that galore person mislaid their lives to crab owed to precocious detection.

The National President of FEPSGA, Comrade Amaebi Aloku, expressed restitution with the turnout and commended the Federal Government, Permanent Secretaries, Directors, and sports managers for their support. He announced that the 2025 FEPSGA Games volition beryllium held successful November.

The Sports Manager of Team Humanitarian, Mr Kazeem Adewale Adenekan, besides appreciated the ministry’s enactment for supporting the team’s information and lauded members for their committedness contempt unfavourable weather.

The lawsuit featured fittingness sessions, aerobics, aesculapian consciousness talks, and grant presentations successful Early Arrival, Best Kitted, Highest Attendance, and Best Behaved MDA categories.

The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction emerged arsenic the 3rd Best Kitted Team.