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  • ESUT medical college marks Hepatitis Day

    ESUT medical college marks Hepatitis Day

    A renowned gastroenterologist at the College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, (ESUT), Dr. Gideon Anikpo has said that unless Nigerians take Hepatitis B and C very seriously, the disease would continue to ravage the society.

    In a lecture to mark the 2017 World Hepatitis Day at the University, Anikpo lamented that due to negligence about 2 million people were infected globally with Hepatitis B and C, 4 million acute cases reported annually while 1 million deaths occur every year, even as he noted that there were also 350 million carriers in the world.

    He regretted that although Hepatitis B and C claim lives 20 times more than HIV/AIDS, little or no attention was given to it. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Eliminate Hepatitis.”

    He said, “Hepatitis B is the inflammation of the liver and its categorised into acute and chronic when it becomes not only a public concern but a silent pandemic and major threat to public health.”

    While describing Hepatitis B as a public health burden in Africa and leading cause of liver disease, the guest speaker stated that about 5 million people could die annually if not diagnosed early, adding that the disease had been treatable since 1982.

    He however, disclosed that strategies for prevention and eradication of the disease included health education, universal screening, prevention of new infections, vaccination in trado-medical procedures, avoidance of unprotected sex and multiple sexual partners as well as avoidance of re-cycling needles.

    The medical practitioner noted that all Nigerians were at risk of contacting the disease and should be counselled and screened for HBV infection at any available opportunity, pointing out that healthcare workers were at higher risk of acquiring the HBV infection.

    Speaking further on the scourge of Hepatitis B and C, Dr. Gideon Anikpo, advised Nigerians to take all necessary measures to prevent it, saying it was easier and cheaper to prevent, as cost of drugs for treatment was beyond the common man.

    Declaring the event open earlier, the provost, College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu, raised an alarm on the prevalence rate of Hepatitis B in sub-Saharan Africa, stressing that it was regrettable Egypt, had the highest prevalence rate in the world.

    Prof. Ugochukwu, said that the damage the disease had done on mankind, calls for concerted efforts by both stakeholders in the health sector and the people to check its occurrence and spread.

    He explained that the World Health Organisation (WHO) sets aside July 28 every year to draw global attention on the pandemic of Hepatitis B and C and called on participants to send the message of the lecture to at least 100 persons through the social media, as information remained the key to disseminate message on the disease to the public. The erudite scholar challenged participants to go ahead and spread the message and not the virus to the people.

    Also speaking, the dean, clinical, at the College of Medicine, ESUT, Prof. Chike Anibeze, commended the head of the department of community medicine in the university, Dr. Eddy Ndibuagu for organising the lecture and promised that his department had no choice but to support such laudable programmes that would go a long way to improving the health of the citizenry.

    Earlier, the organiser and head of the department of community medicine, Dr. Eddy Ndibuagu, said that the style of leadership of the provost, motivated him to organise the event, which was holding for the first time since the inception of institution.

    Ndibuagu, stated that with such a visionary leader, all staff could only support his administration by putting into practice the slogan and virtues of the provost by being creative and enterprising to achieve excellence in education, research, leadership and good morals. He also praised the Megalife Pharmacy for sponsoring the celebration and appealed to the group for more support.

    Some staff and students of the college had earlier in the day held a walk along some major streets in Enugu to create awareness as part of activities to mark the World Hepatitis Day while more than 500 participants were later screened for Hepatitis B for free.

    Some cultural dances and drama series by students entertained guests on the occasion, which drew participants from within and outside the university.

  • Communal clash IDPs get relief in Ebonyi

    Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has distributed relief materials worth N20million to persons displaced by the intra-communal dispute between the people of Ogiri and Okporojo in Afikpo South Local Government Area of the state.

    The two neighbouring communities have been locked in land dispute which claimed the lives of over 40 persons when fighting broke out in May with properties including houses worth millions of naira destroyed.

    The relief materials included cartons of noodles, bags of rice, cartons of wrappers, and mattresses, among others.

    In addition to the relief materials, the government also gave each household affected in the crisis N100, 000 to the over 121 households.

    Handing over the relief materials to the IDPs at government house, Abakaliki,  Governor Umahi represented by his Deputy Dr. Kelechi Igwe called on the over 130 communities in the state to live in peace.

    He said the distribution of the relief materials will) be the last time the government will be intervening in intra crisis.

    He noted that the government was spending much in maintaining security of lives and property of the citizenry and warned that it will not tolerate anyone or community frustrating the government’s efforts.

    “We are doing a lot to change the state for good and also touch lives. What security is taking from this government is so much that any other government would have collapsed because in all our border communities, there are crisis and the government has been providing security in all these flash points. The government ensures the welfare of the security agencies in these areas,” Umahi said.

    The Chairman of the local government, Eni Uduma Chima who commended the government for the gesture, said normalcy has returned to the two warring communities.

    Eni Uduma Chima who lamented the condition of the affected village in terms of infrastructure and welfare added that the present administration has begun the reconstruction of the houses in the area to ensure that the people were comfortable and repositioned to face the challenges ahead of them.

    Chima further noted that security personnel were fully mobilized within and around the affected village to ensure peace and order adding that his office would ensure that the relief materials were duly distributed to the IDPs.

  • Community to Fed Govt: complete our road

    Community to Fed Govt: complete our road

    The traditional ruler of Emede Ibeku community, in Umuahia North council area of Abia State, Eze Henry Ezekwem has sent a Save Our Soul (SOS) to the Federal Government and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to complete the access road they are building.

    The access road which connects the community with their neighbours like Umuagu and Umueze communities which are under the Emede community have been cut off from the state capital because of bad road.

    The communities are also pleading that the road be completed and extended to neighbouring communities in the area, so that they could have access road that will enable them to evacuate their farm produce.

    The Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development embarked on this rural access road to assist the community who are mostly farmers.

    The traditional ruler of the community, Eze Ezekwem said that the community will forever be indebted to the Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for the access road when completed.

    The royal father said that the people of the area will remain grateful to the member representing Abia Central senatorial district at the senate, Senator Theodore Orji for attracting the road and urged him to compel those responsible to complete it soonest to Dave his people from road mishaps.

    A farmer, Mr. John Uche said that his landlords are farmers, adding that most of the goods they produce are wasted because of bad road as they cannot take them to the city to sell.

    Uche said, “My landlords are farmers and we need the road to evacuate our farm produce, we are therefore pleading with the federal government to as a matter of great concern to look at the road and assist the community in completing it.”

    Lending his voice the immediate past youth leader of Umuakannu community, Mr. Obinna Anosike Ukanwa appreciated the federal government for constructing the road but called for its speedy completion for easy movement.

    Ukanwa, who is physically challenged, said that the nature of the road has life and movement very difficult for his and his colleagues who are physically challenged, stressing that he cannot even move his wheelchair around the community freely.

    He said, “We the physically challenged in the area heaved a sigh of relief when the construction of the road started but the Federal Government and the federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development should please complete the road for us”.

    On his own side Mr. Chile Ogbonna said that the construction of the road shows the great regard the Federal Government and the federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have for our people, called on them to ensure the road is completed.

    The people of Emede community have expressed their gratitude to the Federal Government, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the contractor handling the job while promising them that the community would give the contractor the needed assistance to complete the job.

    The community also used the opportunity to felicitate with their Senator Orji for his favourable disposition to the people and the federal government, which has made the federal government to remember them, and promised to pay him back at the appropriate time.

  • Philanthropist’s nursery school graduates

    Philanthropist’s nursery school graduates

    They came in as nursery pupils in 2007. Now they are ready to be admitted into secondary school. The graduation day is a big one for Ahuoma Anyaso Nursery and Primary School, Igbere, Bende Local Government Area, Abia State. It is also a big day for Chief Chima Anyaso, who founded the school to educate children from financially challenged homes.

    Speaking at the ceremony, Anyaso said he was moved to start the school when he came home in 2007 to build his country home. He said he saw pupils who were of nursery school age roaming about in the village because there was no nursery school in Igbere at that time. He said that the situation forced him to abandon his personal project to start the school in order to start the school.

    The businessman said that when the school named after his mother Mrs Ahuoma Anyaso started, pressure came on him to expand it to primary school level which he did without looking back.

    He told the graduating pupils, “You have in the course of the last few years been moulded, spoken to, preached to, in some cases disciplined and admonished which are all for your own good; do not allow them to be a waste”.

    Anyaso said that God blessed him while he was building the school as he also built and completed his own house at the same time, adding that all the teachers in the school numbering 23 are all being paid by him.

    “The least paid staff of the school earns about N25,000 per month,” he said.

    He explained that since the school started nine years ago that none of the pupils attending the school has ever paid school fees as it a free tuition school, adding that the nursery has three classrooms while the primary section has six classrooms with hall.

    The founder of the school said that the foundation will be offering the first three best pupils scholarship to further their education in any secondary school within the area, “We intend to expand this school to secondary level which would be done with the help of my friends”.

    In her speech the head teacher of the school Ezinne Mercy Eze said that the school has 305 pupils in both the nursery and primary school, adding that since the school started that none of the pupils have ever paid school fees.

    Eze said that their salaries are paid as at when due and that no member of staff in whatever capacity has been owed salary since the school commenced and asked God to bless the founder, his family and mother who is always coming around to see things for herself.

    In his opening remarks the chairman of the occasion, Chief Emma Omokwe praised the efforts of Chief Anyaso for finding it worthy to invest in education of the down trodden in the society.

    Omokwe said that it is a thing of joy that the school is graduation the first set of its primary six products who will be leaving to go and further their education at the secondary school level and wished them well.

    The state governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu in his speech said that the state is at the verge of introducing education tax which will help all children to acquire sound education as most parents are passing through a difficult times.

    Ikpeazu who was represented by the deputy speaker of the state house of assembly, Rt Hon Cosmos Ndukwe said that when children are given sound and qualitative education that it will help to reduce moral decadence in the society.

    He said that what Anyaso is doing is clarion call for states to pass the child right act which is part of the UN act which the federal government has domesticated, while regretting that only sixteen states in the country have done that.

    The governor said that Anyaso has given impetus that every child has the right to quality education in the state in particular and the country at large, “The time has come for every state to do the needful in educating the child”.

    Ikpeazu said that his administration has done something similar by returning schools to churches so that children will be educated in the right way while every child will be given good morals as well.

    He said, The Ahuoma Anyaso school in Igbere has shown the light that will help to reduce the moral decadence in the society and urged the graduates to make good use of what they have been taught in school.

  • Flood: Aba’s old nemesis returns

    Flood: Aba’s old nemesis returns

    Its commerce has won many over, but there is one thing Enyimba City has not conquered: flooding. SUNNY NWANKWO reports on the deluge that swamped Aba

    In a room in one apartment you could only see a few inches of the backrest of a plastic chair sticking out of the water. Everything else was underwater except for some half-submerged weighty household items placed on the chair in the hope that they would be safe from the flood. They were not.

    Aba may be Abia State’s commercial nerve, crawling with irrepressible business people and ingenious fabricators, but it is also notorious for its floods. Such is the flood disaster that the late Chief Sam Mbakwe in his days as governor of old Imo State, of which Abia was once a part, wept as he stood before then President Shehu Shagari. He needed federal government’s intervention. Decades after, Aba is still troubled by its old watery enemy.

    Enyimba city in the last one month has witnessed persistent rains, sometimes so heavy that most parts of the city would be flooded, making human and vehicular traffic extremely difficult.

    Sunday, July 23, was one of the days when many residents of the economic and business-oriented city wished never came. It was the day many residents of the three most crucial local governments: Osisioma, Aba North and South at the heart of the commercial city, experienced for the first time this year what they described as one disaster too many. It was a day flood sacked over 100 families from their homes and damaged property worth several millions of naira.

    While the residents hope for some relief in the “August break”, some have called on the authorities to fix the flooding menace in their areas in order to save their homes and properties. One of the people affected by the flood was the wife of a former military administrator of Cross River State Mrs Rosemary Archibong. She appealed to Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, NEMA and other relevant bodies in charge of addressing flooding issues in Abia to intervene to save their properties.

    Mrs Archibong in a telephone interview with our correspondent said her residence was still flooded days after the Sunday downpour. She said that the persistent flooding of her street and apartment has forced her tenants and many residents on the street to vacate, adding that the problem could cause more harm if not urgently checked.

    He husband died last year.

    She said, “This house is what I am left with and I can’t afford it because of flood, which has been a regular occurrence whenever it rains. I know that the issue of flooding will be solved and that is why I am appealing that the state government and those responsible should come to our aid to fix this problem once and for all.”

    Other residents of Aba also affected by the flood are counting losses which they suffered in the torrential rain that has left them homeless.

    The Nation gathered that residents of Amucha by Ohanku and Ibadan Street off Ngwa Road, Ama Ogbonna, Dike Street by Garden Avenue, Off Okigwe Road, Ekeakpara and other parts of North and South Local Government Areas of the state were the worst hit.

    Unconfirmed reports from Ngwa Road have it that about three children were reportedly swept away by the water and were not seen at the time of filing this report.

    Some of the displaced persons who spoke to our reporter appealed to the state governor, Abia State Emergency Management Agency (ASEMA) and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to come to their aid as they were yet to recover from the shock of the flood.

    A resident of Agalaba Street in Osisioma Local Government Area, Comrade Charles Alili narrating the incident to our reporter where he was taking refuge with his family, said, “By 7am in the morning (Sunday), while we still waking up from sleep, we heard a loud sound. We thought it was thunder, but in less than five minutes, the whole compound was filled with water.

    “We later found out that the fence demarcating our house from the other side failed and the water from Ekeakpara zone of Osisioma that couldn’t find its exit route because the gutter was blocked, emptied into our compound.

    “The whole flats in our compound were submerged and what we quickly did was to evacuate about 16 children that were in the compound when the incident happened. An aged woman of about 80years was equally taken away with the help of neighbours who came to our rescue.  Our properties including cars were not left out. No life was lost, but property worth millions of naira was damaged. No one can make use of any property in his or house again because the water was above window level. No cloth to wear to market and school and as it stands; we are yet to think of what to do. We are appealing to NEMA and ASEMA to come to our aid. We are just like refugees in our own state.”

    A resident of Amucha by Ohanku, off Ngwa Road that simply gave his name as Nkemakolam disclosed that the damage the rain dealt on Aba South residents were running into millions. This is even as he stated that many residents of Amucha and Umuogele as at 10am “this morning was still trapped in their residents”.

    Nkemakolam said, “The embankment which has been built by house owners over the years as a palliative to stop rain from entering their houses collapsed during the heavy rain on Sunday, causing many houses to submerge. We even learnt that some people are looking for their children as we speak. The damage by the rain is severe and we want government to come to our aid because the damage is too much for us to bear.

  • Widow raises alarm over son’s arrest by army

    The family of Arthur Enyinna of Abala village in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State has raised the alarm following his arrest by soldiers in Aba, the commercial hub of the Abia State.

    The family said they were yet to be informed by the army about Arthur’s whereabouts, adding that he is a staff of the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency, ASEPA, Aba zone.

    Family sources told newsmen that Arthur was arrested by soldiers attached to the Army unit stationed at Asa Road, Aba, on July 14, 2017 and that they were yet to see or hear from him since his arrest

    They stated that the army were yet to also tell the family members the reason they arrested him, a development said to have caused his mother emotional and psychological trauma.

    His mother, Mrs. Comfort Enyinna, a widow, in an emotion-laden voice, decried her son’s arrest, calling on the soldiers to release him. She stressed that Arthur is not a criminal.

    She said, “I’m appealing to the Army to release my son wherever he is being held. He is not a criminal and ought not to be made to suffer. He has been sick, and came home on Thursday and left for work on the following day, only to be arrested. We have visited several Army units in Aba and they told us that he is not with them. I wonder who my son could have offended. I plead with the person to pardon him, he is not a criminal. We have also reported his arrest to his office at ASEPA, yet they have not done anything to trace his whereabouts.”

    Efforts to reach Deputy General Manager, Abia State Environmental Protection Agency, Aba zone, Chief Rowland Nwakanma in order to find out what the agency was doing to ensure the rescue of his staff failed as he couldn’t take repeated calls to his mobile phone.

    When contacted, Army Public Relations Officer (APRO), 14 Brigade, Ohafia, Abia State, Major Oyegoke Gbadamaosi confirmed Arthur Enyinna’s arrest, adding that he has been handed over to the Department of State Services (DSS), Abia State command.

  • Ebonyi CJ frees 38 awaiting-trial inmates

    Ebonyi CJ frees 38 awaiting-trial inmates

    The Chief Judge of Ebonyi State, Justice Alloy Nwankwo has freed 38 inmates serving in Abakaliki and Afikpo federal prisons  during a jail delivery exercise.

    Nwankwo, while addressing journalists, said that the jail delivery exercise was in exercise of the constitutional rights conferred on the Chief Justice of the Federation and the Chief Judges of states by the Nigerian Constitution.

    Giving a breakdown, the Chief Judge said nine inmates were released from Abakaliki prisons while nine others were released from Afikpo prisons.

    He said the exercise was to decongest the prison yard by releasing awaiting trial inmates who have been in custody without trial over a period of time.

    According to him, 11 inmates awaiting trial were discharged, nine were granted bail on self-recognition while the other nine were admitted to conditional bail in Abakaliki prisons.

    Also, in Afikpo prisons, 5 inmates were discharged without condition, 3 released on bail condition and 1 freed on self-recognition.

    He said that the facility was built to accommodate 387 inmates but lamented that no fewer than 1000 both awaiting trial and convicted inmates were presently housed in the facility.

    “There are over 1000 inmates in the prison yard built to accommodate 387 inmates hence the need for us to regularly visit the prisons to treat deserving cases in order to decongest the prisons in line with  the  prisons reform policy.

    “Our work as I said earlier does not include coming here to release all awaiting inmates, there are procedures otherwise we will be disobeying the law and that is not our intention”, Nwankwo said.

    Justice Nwankwo commended the prisons authority for compiling the case files in proper order, saying by October, there would be a repeat of the exercise to further decongest the prison.

    He urged the freed inmates to be of good conduct and to avoid engaging in further criminal activities that could throw them back to prison.

    “You must be of good conduct, shun further criminal activities and work to contribute meaningfully to the society.

    “Those on bail we are charging to be of good behaviour and to stick to the bail conditions to avoid revocation of the bail,” he added.

    Those released include; 66-year-old Patrick Orji accused of alleged murder incarcerated for nine years without trial, Ikechukwu Okoro and Chibueze Nweke.

    Others discharged are: Chinonso Nwibo who is deaf and dumb, Chibuike Agbo, Ndubuisi Ogbonna, Ndubuisi Nworie and 12-year-old Chibuike Omuka charged with alleged burglary among others.

    Also, the Prisons Boss, Comptroller Emelia Adaobi Oputa, has handed over barbing saloon equipment to one of the freed prisons inmates  Chinonso Nwibo, as part of efforts to rehabilitate prisoners serving various jails terms within the facility.

    Handing over the equipment to Chinonso Nwibo, she advised him to be of good behaviour and make use of the equipment to start his trade.

     

  • Pro-Buhari group provides fertilisers for Ebonyi farmers

    Pro-Buhari group provides fertilisers for Ebonyi farmers

    A group, Initiative for Demonstrating Change, has distributed over 650 bags of fertilisers, in addition to cash, to farmers in Ikwo Local Government Areas of Ebonyi State.

    The gesture, national coordinator of the group Chinedu Ogah said, was to complement the efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in boosting food sufficiency.

    He stressed the urgent need to empower local farmers with incentives and financial assistance.

    The youth leader added that the beneficiaries were drawn from the 20 electoral wards in the council stressing that he would extend the gestures to other farmers in other council areas in the state.

    He disclosed that Initiative for Demonstrating Change was among the first groups that lent its voice to President Muhammadu Buhari’s transformation agenda and anti-corruption fight in the country and further urged the people to have patience with the Buhari’s administration as he fixes the ailing country’s economy and other dilapidated sectors.

    Ogah said, “Unless we empower and help these local farmers, there is no headway for this country. The only problem affecting the local farmers is the availability and accessibility of farm inputs. This is the time to help the poor farmers because the President has done so much for farmers.

    “The distribution is for all the local government in Ebonyi. This is the time to come home and help the powers. There is time to invest on the young farmers. Most of them have no money to buy fertilisers. We will continue to provide incentives and assistance for our poor farmers to strive”.

    One of the beneficiaries, Mrs Chinyere Nwede commended the donor for his show of love and concern to help farmers in the state who have no money to buy farm inputs.

    Nwede said, “I am happy today. Our son has given us free bags of fertilizer. His philanthropic gesture is indeed inborn, that is the reason why God will continue to strengthen him. His giving has no bound. He has been doing exploits and he will continue to do it”.

    She urged the Federal government to support local production of foods by assisting farmers with grants and improved seedlings to enable them cultivate their crops.

    “His (Ogah’s) philanthropic gesture is  indeed inborn, that is the reason why God will continue to strengthen him. His giving has no bound. He has been doing exploits and he will continue to do it,” she added.

  • Community to Fed Govt: complete our road

    Community to Fed Govt: complete our road

    The traditional ruler of Emede Ibeku community, in Umuahia North council area of Abia State, Eze Henry Ezekwem has sent a Save Our Soul (SOS) to the Federal Government and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to complete the access road they are building.

    The access road which connects the community with their neighbours like Umuagu and Umueze communities which are under the Emede community have been cut off from the state capital because of bad road.

    The communities are also pleading that the road be completed and extended to neighbouring communities in the area, so that they could have access road that will enable them to evacuate their farm produce.

    The Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development embarked on this rural access road to assist the community who are mostly farmers.

    The traditional ruler of the community, Eze Ezekwem said that the community will forever be indebted to the Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for the access road when completed.

    The royal father said that the people of the area will remain grateful to the member representing Abia Central senatorial district at the senate, Senator Theodore Orji for attracting the road and urged him to compel those responsible to complete it soonest to Dave his people from road mishaps.

    A farmer, Mr. John Uche said that his landlords are farmers, adding that most of the goods they produce are wasted because of bad road as they cannot take them to the city to sell.

    Uche said, “My landlords are farmers and we need the road to evacuate our farm produce, we are therefore pleading with the federal government to as a matter of great concern to look at the road and assist the community in completing it.”

    Lending his voice the immediate past youth leader of Umuakannu community, Mr. Obinna Anosike Ukanwa appreciated the federal government for constructing the road but called for its speedy completion for easy movement.

    Ukanwa, who is physically challenged, said that the nature of the road has life and movement very difficult for his and his colleagues who are physically challenged, stressing that he cannot even move his wheelchair around the community freely.

    He said, “We the physically challenged in the area heaved a sigh of relief when the construction of the road started but the Federal Government and the federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development should please complete the road for us”.

    On his own side Mr. Chile Ogbonna said that the construction of the road shows the great regard the Federal Government and the federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have for our people, called on them to ensure the road is completed.

    The people of Emede community have expressed their gratitude to the Federal Government, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the contractor handling the job while promising them that the community would give the contractor the needed assistance to complete the job.

    The community also used the opportunity to felicitate with their Senator Orji for his favourable disposition to the people and the federal government, which has made the federal government to remember them, and promised to pay him back at the appropriate time.

  • 2700 kids dine with beauty queen

    2700 kids dine with beauty queen

    Her goal, she said, is to ensure that every child achieves their dream, and feeding them seems a good way to start. That is what former beauty queen Jennifer Okorie in collaboration with Miss Global Ambassador Nigeria has been doing with her Feed and Save Tomorrow or FAST.

    The campaign was flagged off in Lagos, where the Jennifer Okorie Foundation, her NGO, fed over 500 kids in the streets of Badia and Ajegunle, two Lagos ghettoes. It continued in Anambra and Ebonyi states, with the number of the fed now over 2700.

    The campaign was birthed after the realiSation that most kids are left without hope of daily meals in the street, and such show of sympathy and benevolence will not only make them feel belonged in the society, but also put smiles on their faces.

    The CEO of the Foundation, Jennifer Okorie said it was a realisation of her dreams to see smiles on the faces of kids that have been in sordid pain and rejection.

    According to her, it was her own way of contributing to the success story of a child in the street, as no one knows who will be the next inventor of a groundbreaking product amongst those kids in the street.

    Track Media Enterprise, owners of the franchise for the FAST Charity project affirmed that it was worth every nickel of time and funds invested, as the Foundation was one that has strong passion and the success of the project was easily realisable due to this great passion.

    The project has become an annual project that will run from January to June each year.