2022 INTERNATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH WITH THE THEME: ““RISE-RALLYING, SUPPORTING, SERVING AND SCREENING EVERYONE””
“CANCER KILLS MORE THAN HIV, MALARIA &
TUBERCULOSIS, EARLY DETECTION & TIMELY TREATMENT SAVE LIVES:
Breast Cancer Awareeness Month,Scientific update has it that “Cancer” is one of the leading
causes of death globally. A cancer scenario in Nigeria reveals that about 500,000
new cases are diagnosed every year and that it kills over 250,000 people
annually in Nigeria. It is further said that Cancer kills more people than
HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (ATM) combined (WHO 2006a, 2006b). However, medical
experts have continuously advocates; for early detection, regular awareness, timely
screening, vaccination and treatment as major interventions against the
disease.
The “Civil Society for CANCER Eradication in Nigeria
(CiSCANEN)” and other key stakeholders in the response to cancer in the state
hereby urge everyone to join this campaign to commit to strengthened
activities for quality, including screening, early detection, treatment and
palliative care.
The primary goal of International Breast Cancer Awareness
Month is to significantly reduce illness and death caused by
cancer and is an opportunity to rally the international community to end
the menace of preventable suffering from breast cancer.
Globally, there were an estimated 20 million new cases of
cancer and 10 million deaths from cancer. The cancer burden will
increase by approximately 60% over the next two decades, further straining
health systems, people and communities. The predicted global burden will
increase to about 30 million new cancer cases by 2040, with the greatest
increases occurring in low- and middle-income countries.
The good news , however, is that Breast Cancer can be
prevented and controlled by implementing evidence-based strategies for cancer
prevention, screening and early detection, treatment and palliative care. The
most common modifiable risk factors for cancer, which are shared with many
other non-communicable diseases, are Tobacco use, Low fruit and vegetable
intake, Harmful use of alcohol, Lack of physical activity, age or race, alcohol
use and obesity. Some preventive measures includes: exercise/physical activity
helps combat obesity and lower the risk of breast cancer, avoid sugary drinks
and limit consumption of energy-dense foods and processed foods Limit
consumption of red meats (such as beef, pork, and lamb) and avoid processed
meats,”
One-third to one-half
of Breast cancer cases could be prevented by reducing the prevalence of known
risk factors. Examples of actionable interventions are tobacco control and
lifestyles. The most effective primary prevention of Breast cancer is based on
whole-of-government approaches, with legislation, regulation and fiscal
policies combined with activities to change community and individual behaviour.
Public health messages and health promotion should present evidence on specific
risk factors.
Despite being a largely preventable and treatable disease,
Breast cancer is an important public health problem, affecting mostly young and
middle-aged young and socioeconomically deprived women in developing
countries.
To tackle this important determinant of gender and socioeconomic
inequalities, In March 2021, the World Health Organization introduced the
Global Breast Cancer Initiative, aiming to reduce the burden of breast cancer,
the most frequent cancer in women globally and in the Americas region.
The initiative aims to reduce global breast cancer mortality
by 2.5% per year, thus averting an estimated 2.5 million deaths by 2040. In
2020 there were nearly 500,000 new breast cancer cases and over 100,000 breast
cancer deaths in the Americas. If successful, nearly 480,000 breast cancer
deaths would be averted in the Americas region alone during the 20-year period.
Activities for the initiative will focus on three pillars: Health
promotion, Timely diagnosis, and Comprehensive treatment including supportive
care
The Civil Society for Cancer Eradication in Nigeria
(CiSCANEN), Plateau State chapter have been able to organise a day
capacity building workshop, with a total of 224 (122 Male, 102 Female) members on
basic facts of cancer and demand creation on cancer education and 480 (male-390
and female- 90) members of the National Association of Nigerian Traditional
Medicine Practitioners (NANTMP), Plateau State Chapter sharing experience on
the medical aspect of cancer treatment and care.
A total of 24,123 (female= 15,264 and male 8,859) people
(market men & women, NANTMP members, students, workplaces and the general
public) in Plateau have been reached since 2016.
Breast screening and examination have been conducted in
secondary schools, tertiary institutions and workplaces in Plateau State
covering 1,034 women out of which 34 of them had lumps and nipple discharge
suspected to be cancer cases.
The event which was mostly supported in Plateau state by the
wife of the Plateau State Governor, Her Excellency, Mrs Regina S.B. Lalong
through Her SWITCH Foundation, her PET Project in 2017 and 2018 has suffered a
serious seek back this year as CiSCANEN was unable to lay its hands on any
support elsewhere. CiSCANEN is currently in urgent need of support to continue
to tackle the cancer problems on the Plateau and beyond.
I, therefore, write on behalf of (CiSCANEN), Plateau State
Chapter, to congratulate on the recent
achievements of the Executive Governor of our dear Plateau State and the
Chairman, Nigerian Northern Governor’s Forum (NGF). We are delighted to note
that this tenure has attracted so many Federal Government Health institutions
to Plateau State, which includes the approvals for the establishment orthopaedic
hospital, Jos, Federal Medical Centre, Wase and the University of Jos Cancer
Centre which stands out among your achievements as a dream come true to us at
CiSCANEN, Plateau State chapter. This is so because it has come to serve as a
boost to our activities in combating cancer on the Plateau. Our only humble
request is that you help us support the creation of the “Plateau State Cancer
Agency (PSCA)” as a necessary complement to the Cancer Centre as it will better
coordinate the activities of the Civil Society Organizations to work in
collaboration with the National Cancer Centre and to also the quest/bid for the
proposed November/December 2022 “Plateau State Cancer Trust Fund lunch” already
sent to his humble office
In conclusion, Every Action Counts as the International
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a truly global event. In order to achieve the
objective of reaching as much of the world’s population as possible, your help
is needed, whether you do something as large as running your own International
Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign, or as simple as sharing our template
messages amongst your media networks and organizations, every action has an
impact. Show the world that we can win the war on cancer. Get involved in the
fight against cancer.
We appreciate that everyone supporting the Day has different
needs and priorities, so there are a wide variety of ways to get involved and
to also take advantage of the numerous vegetables and fruits we have on the
Plateau: cabbage, carrots, fresh tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, mangoes etc
which serves as diets for cancer patients. As we jointly participate in
fighting cancer, it is hoped that the disease will be reduced to the barest
minimum.
by Mr.Tokbish, Yohanna Mizak,
State Coordinator,
CiSCANEN, Plateau State-Nigeria.
08036788777, 08104390217
NIGERIA’S JOURNEY TO NATIONHOOD: FILLING THE LEADERSHIP GAP
(Modest Thoughts With Ayuba Yilgak'ha in Jos, August 6, 2023; SMS: 08116181263)
Nations are organic. Therefore, they evolve, changing from
one stage or form to another. One of the major catalysts of state evolution and
revolution is leadership. Leaders are like drivers, pilots or captains who take
people to destinations of interest. The quality of leadership, therefore, determines how well and far a nation can go.
When nations found the speed they travel at is not good
enough and or their destination is nowhere in sight as expected, the review becomes
inevitable. In the journey to nationhood, the destinations of interest include
but are not limited to holistic freedom, peace and stability, unity and integration
as well as economic self-sufficiency!
At different points in history, nations, leaders and pundits
have had cause to ask questions. Ask questions about the quality of their
existence. For example, Edmund 1972 once asked, “Have we travelled three
thousand miles not to be free?”
In Nigeria today, concerns about bad conditions of life of
the citizenry have thrown up questions. What is the essence of the independence
our founding fathers fought for (and attained in 1960)? Why do we have to fight
for 30 months if we cannot guarantee the peace and security of one another?
What is the democratic struggle we fought to enthrone 20 years ago all about?
Is Nigeria’s rooftop collapsing? Is this nation of ours on the right path to
nationhood? Are we lost in the wilderness, where exactly are we?
Over the years, the leadership baton of Nigeria has changed hands as it is in a relay manner. Each generation of the succeeding
leaders had, at least, made modest achievements to their credit but there is
still much left undone. The likes of king Jaja of Opopos played their part in
defending the ownership of our land; Awolowos, Ahmadu Bellos, Azikwes, Tafawa
Balewas fought hard and ejected colonial intruders from our soil. Gowon and
many others fought for the unity of the country while progressive forces like
members of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Solomon Lar etc. fought for
the return of democracy in the country. Yet, there are still more battles to
fight: the battle against structural imbalances, corruption, insecurity,
economic backwardness, etc. These many problems by all standards are deep-rooted and cannot be solved by wishful thinking!
Anyway, every problem is an opportunity to provide a solution.
Therefore, the opportunity to end Nigeria’s economic slavery, insecurity,
corruption and structural imbalances is here with us. Many countries around the world had had such
huddles but overcame courtesy quality leadership. For example, in China, it was
Dend Xiaoping that came to the rescue; in India, it was Manmohan Singh (finance
Minister); For Singapore, it was Lee Kuan Yu, etc. In Nigeria, who can help us?
An opportunity to write somebody’s name in the sands of time, as the man who
brought Nigeria out of the wood of underdevelopment is here!
Political leaders must know that they shall not be leaders
forever and the followership must also know that they might be on the saddle
tomorrow. Today as always, while most the incumbents whom the law allows are
seeking reelection; we have also seen former leaders fighting their way back to
corridors of power. There are some from the followership who are trying to give it a shot for the first time? Which way do we go, the way of the incumbents or the voted-out-of-power bidders, and or should we go for new hands entirely?
Here lies the dilemma of decision-making in an election season. The choice (s)
to make often comes with a certain degree of uncertainty.
The Nigerian state seems to be in a state of leadership
limbo. The atmosphere is always suggesting a lack of faith in those who are in
power and a lack of power in the hands of those who have faith. In order to
manage this limbo, it must be understood that every leader is the product
of the larger society it emerged from. Leaders are specimens of the total
population and culture from where they are drawn. Therefore, citizens have to
do the needful to get credible leaders. In other words, it takes rare determination
to produce good leaders from a largely corrupt population.
Those who aspire to be in a position of leadership must
acquaint themselves with tested leadership qualities which include fearlessness
(Humble fearlessness); emotional intelligence (not easily angered or acting on
impulse) and moral decency. What morality does is that even when there is a legal
lacuna, a moral leader will exhibit the right sense of statesmanship.
Leaders believe in the abilities of their followers and seek
to inspire and motivate them in speech and action. Hear this inspiring one: “In
view of men like those in the advanced guards, there is no doubt the
regeneration of the human race” (Edmund, 1972). The guard, to whom this inspiring
line refers, will most likely put their best in the discharge of their duties,
I imagined. Leaders have a vision, seeing and taking action that will serve a
country’s greatest good in future times, say the next 50 years.
Fellow Nigerians, before us now is yet another opportunity
to choose those that will lead us in the next four years, commencing from May
29, 2023. In times like this, the advice and caution of Octavia Estelle Butler,
multiple awards-winning American Science fiction writer becomes instructive and
should be reflected upon with all the seriousness it deserves. Her words:
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to
be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by
the opportunist who controls the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your
most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told
lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into
slavery.” This quote needs meditation to fully internalize the implications of
voting wrong leaders!
In a few months ahead, Nigerians of voting age who have
registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and have
their respective Permanent Voters' Card (PVC) shall be going to the polls to
elect from among us leaders who will represent various levels as members of
state houses of assemblies, national assembly (both senate and House of
Representatives), governors and, indeed, President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria. We must go into this all-important exercise with the “unfinished
dreams” of the country in mind. The dreams as earlier mentioned and for the
purpose of emphasis include but are not limited to the need to end economic
slavery, insecurity, corruption and structural imbalances in the country. The
issue, therefore, is to determine which of these candidates or combinations of
candidates have what it takes to address our pressing problems?
The choice is ours to make.
We must wear our thinking cap and think clearly before we vote in the
coming general elections. We must learn to choose wisely if bridging the
leadership gap the country is battling with, for decades, is anything to go by.
Preparation in leadership matters a lot. Best wishes to Nigeria and Nigerians!
NIGERIA AT 62
NIGERIA AT 62
Happy independence celebration.
Moments like this are for deep reflection to determine the basis for
celebration or lamentation. Whatever our issues are, we celebrate this historic
day not because all is well with our journey to nationhood but because things
can get better in Nigeria. Idowu Koyenikan puts it this way: "Your pride
for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country
becomes great because of your pride in it." In this mindset lies the
spirit and fibre of nationalism and patriotism (Modest Thoughts with Ayuba
Yilgak'ha, October 1, 2022)
Nigeria @ 62 Independence Anniversary Goodwill Message from Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs
NIGERIA @ 62 INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARIES GOODWILL MESSAGE FROM MINISTRY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND CHIEFTAINCY AFFAIRS
mni, the Permanent Secretary, management and the entire staff of the ministry, wish to facilitate with the President and Commander–in–chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, the Vice Pre4sident Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Senate President Sen. Ahmed Lawal and members of the National Assembly, the Chief Justice of Nigeria Hon. Justice Olukayode Arinwoola, our amiable Governor of Plateau State and leader of the Rescue Administration Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Simon Bako Lalong KSGG, his Deputy Prof. Sonny G. Tyoden, The Speaker, Plateau State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Yakubu Sanda, the Chief Judge of Plateau state Hon. Justice David Mann, and indeed all Nigerians on the occasion of the nation’s 62nd Independence Anniversary.
As we rejoice on this auspicious
day, we salute the resilience of the Leader of the Rescue administration, for
standing with the ideals and philosophy of our National heroes past that ‘our
diversity is our strength’
While we ponder, we pray to the
almighty God to continue to fortify our leaders as well as the citizens aright, and also inspire us to do more towards building a united, peaceful and
progressive nation.
Once more, happy Independence Day
celebration, Nigeria.
S
D Tapgun mni
Honourable
Commissioner,
Ministry
for Local Government and,
Chieftaincy
Affairs
INDEPENDENCE GOODWILL MESSAGE FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE COMMISSION
INDEPENDENCE GOODWILL MESSAGE FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE COMMISSION
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the collaborative and resilient effort of our founding fathers, whose passion for an indivisible and amiable Republic came to fruition on the first of October nineteen sixty.
In commemorating this noble feat, the Chairman Plateau State Local Government Service Commission Chief
Barrister Robert Andrew Taple ( Wazirin Mupun) on behalf of Commissioners,
Permanent Secretary and staff of the seventeen Local Government Councils felicitate with the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of
Nigeria, His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, his Vice, Professor
Yemi Osibanjo GCON, President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of
Representatives, their Deputies and all
members of the National Assembly as well as members of the Federal Executive
Council on this auspicious occasion of the commemoration of Independence.
We in the same vein, join the citizens of Plateau to profoundly rejoice with the Captain of the Rescue
Administration, His Excellency Rt. Hon Simon Bako Lalong KSGG, Chairman
Northern Governors Forum and his Deputy Professor Sonni Tyoden, the Speaker Rt.
Hon Yakubu Sanda, Deputy Speaker and members of Plateau State House of
Assembly, Chief Judge Justice David Mann as well as the Chairman and members of
Plateau State Council of Chiefs and Emirs on this auspicious occasion where we
recount and gauge the level of our commitment to Nigeria’s growth and
development in line with the heroic values set by pioneers.
Mr. Governor, your administration
is a pillar and the factor of reckoning in all the gains and achievements attained
by the Local Government Service Commission.
The Commission has quantifiable broken records and positively impacted on staff via your approval for the
release of their promotions, conversions, appointments, transfers as well as
training and retraining which are among its cardinal objectives.
These have placed Local
Government Employees at the vantage to deliver on their statutory
responsibility of providing service to the grassroots and in turn yield growth
and development.
As the Nation continues on the path of
sovereignty laid through the vision of our heroes past, the Commission shall
assiduously do its bidding in conformity with the values of unity, peace and
progress upon which this struggle was hatched.
Congratulations and Happy
Independence.
Aminchi K.Joshua.
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David Dimka commiserate with Rt. Hon Ahmed Idris Wase
David Dimka commiserate with Rt. Hon Ahmed Idris Wase
On behalf of my family, and indeed all members of the DVD Movement; I convey our heartfelt and deepest condolences to you and members of your great family, and the entire people of Bashar Chiefdom on the passing to Jannatul Firdaus of His Royal Highness, Alhaji Adamu Idris, (The Rekna of Bashar), your elder brother at the ripe age of 98 years.
His passing to eternal glory definitely leaves a vacuum but as believers in the Merciful will of Allah we must give thanks to the Almighty for granting him such a long reign that spanned 59 fruitful and eventful years which transformed his domain and touched us all .
His demise is a great loss not only to your family, the people of Bashar Chiefdom, in Wase Local Government but to the entire Plateau State.
As a custodian of wisdom and culture, and great proponent of peaceful coexistence he left an indelible mark in the sands of time. We are therefore convinced that he has moved on to meet his Creator.
We pray that Allah who is the Merciful one will grant him forgiveness of all his shortcomings.
My family has enjoyed a robust and fulfilling relationship with members of your family over the years and we deeply share in this irreparable loss and grief together. May his gentle and peaceful soul rest in perfect peace. Amen.
*Nde* *Dimka* , *Victor* *David* *fsi*
*Comptroller* *of* *Customs* *(rtd)*
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