Senator Iroegbu
22 April 2009
Abuja — National Orientation Agency (NOA) is set to revive environmental sanitation for promotion of health and personal hygiene in the country.
The move was revealed through a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary, NOA, Mr. Fidel Agu, who disclosed that the decision was reached during a collaborative workshop between the Agency and Jama'a Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
During a meeting with local government officials, the NOA State Director, Mallam Galadima Soba, described environmental sanitation as a cardinal approach to reducing the prevalence of sickness in the country.
Soba commended the local governments for collaborating with NOA in the exercise, and urged them to maintain general cleanliness as a recipe for godliness.
According to Agu, the local councils further pledged to cooperate with the agency in the realisation of this set of objectives by emulating its ideal on environmental sanitation and cleanliness.
In a related development, NOA, as part of its mass enlightenment programme, collaborated with the Borno State Government and the Biu Local Government to educate the people on the importance of eating balanced diets.
In a two-day workshop held recently, the agency frowned at unhealthy eating habits; especially the non-balancing of foods with the six essential food nutrients.
Addressing participants, Borno state Director of NOA, Mallam Kasimu Birma, advised the people to always ensure that they eat at least three square meals daily, all of which should be healthy combination of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, fats and oils and water.
Birma stressed that balanced diets could reduce people's numerous health problems thereby maintaining the required health posture to contribute meaningfully to national development. "Lack of balanced diets, especially in children, makes them vulnerable to infectious diseases", he said.
Encouraging the opinion leaders to communicate same to those who look up to them as credible sources of information, the Agency taught religious and tradition leaders as well as women on cost-effective ways and processes of balancing their diets using local foods.
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