Nigeria: Agency Procures Waste Recycling Plants

26 June 2010

Bauchi — The Bauchi State Commission for Youth and Women Rehabilitation and Development (BACYWORD) has procured three recycling plants for installation in each of the three Senatorial Districts in the state expected to generate over 5,000 jobs to the unemployed youths across the 20 Local Government areas in the state.

Director-General of BACYWORD, Professor Musa Maisamari, who disclosed this to members of the state Correspondents' Chapel of the NUJ, Bauchi while presenting the score card of the Commission in the last three years of its establishment, said the waste-to-wealth project was initiated" to achieve double-barrel purposes of providing gainful employment opportunities for our idle youths and rid the society and environment as a whole of the pollution being posed by plastic and other polythene materials".

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