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KWEPA INVITES MOTEST ON SYNERGY TO SPUR ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANLINESS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS The Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA), has called on the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Science and Technology MOTEST  for symmetric approach to spur environmental cleanliness in all its higher institutions of learning in the state. The general manager of the agency, Alh. Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa gave the indication during its courtesy visit paid to the Ministry at its headquarters, today, in Ilorin. Alh. Sa'ad, addressing the Honourable Commissioner of the Ministry, (Dr.) Alabi Afees Abolore, explained that the visit was to seek for the Ministry's cordial support to enable it tackle the recurring issues of environmental nuisance rampaging its higher institutions of learning in the state. Dan-Musa expressed serious dissatisfaction at the intense rate at which various environmental nuisance persisted in most of its education institutions, urging t...

KWEPA Harps on Environment Higiene, says it's requires collective effort. The General Manager, Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA), Alh. Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa,  has  urged corporate bodies and individuals in the state to see environmental cleanliness as a collective effort. Dan- Musa made the call at the Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority,  Headquarters, Ilorin, during a courtsey visit to the federal government agency. Alh. Sa'ad, during the meeting with the management of LNRBDA, explained that there was  an urgent need for the two agencies  to syndicate effort in controlling people's poor attitude of indiscriminate dumping of waste into  drainages and  river banks, adding that such synergy will inhibit adverse effect on the health of the general public and it's environs. He said: "we must not allow any form of disease in our environment; and we must be aware of the advent of Lassa fever and the recent ...

R.T..E. A.N PARTNERS KWARA TELEVISION.   The recent insinuation that the Buses leased to the Road Transport ,Employers Assassination of Nigeria (RTEAN) Kwara State branch by the Kwara State government as old, rickety and unservicable has been described as a futile attempt at telling lies from the pit of hell.  This assertion was made in Ilorin today by the State Chairman of the Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Abdulrahman Onikijipa while receiving the Board members of the Kwara State Television Authority who paid him a courtesy visit as part of their engagements with critical stake holders. Alhaji Onikijipa who expressed his Association's appreciation to the Kwara Governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq for the kind gesture said all the Buses are in top working condition adding that his members will start repaying their loans tomorrow so that others can benefit. He described the negative propaganda by the opposition as that which is dead on arrival. The RTEAN boss co...

KWEPA Charges Manufacturing Companies On Environmental and Health Safety precautions. The Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA), has charged manufacturing companies in the state to beef up efforts in observing all environmental and health safety measures in their mode of operations. The general manager of the agency, Alh. Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa, gave the charge yesterday during an inspection tour paid to some of the manufacturing industries operating along Ogbondoro axis, Afon area, in Asa Local Government Area of the state. Alh Dan-Musa, explained that the inspection was to keep all the Industries abreast of some of the  intrecacies of the agency's environmental laws, checkmating their level of compliance and adherence to those laws to foster health safety within their premises and the residents in the areas. Alh. Sa'ad, addressing some of the Management Staff of the industries, emphasized on governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq a...

KWSG  reaffirms its committment to safety of lives and properties. ... as scores of animals died on suspected poison at Olam Grains Company.  Sequel upon the  reported case of environmental hazard suspected to have claimed lives of some animals at Olam grains Company, at Ogbondoroko, Asa Local Government of the State, the State Government has reaffirmed its unreserved committment to strengthening safety of lives and properties in the state.  This was revealed by the General Manager, Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency,  Alh. Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa along side the Hon. Commissioner, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Remilekun Banigbe, during an urgent official call paid to the place to verify and ascertain the root cause of the sudden death toll on animals in that area.  The State Environmental team, while interfacing with the Mogaji of Ogbondoroko, Alh. Ibrahim Babatunde Ajape on the matter, restated the led administration o...

KWARA MONITORING GROUP (KMG) WARNS KWARANS TO BE OBSERVANT   ....as Lagos state bans Okada.. It is a well known fact that Kwara state remains the most secured state in the country, but the citizens should not take advantage of that to totally relax without taking security into consideration. It has become a tradition that an average number of people in the World always search for where is peaceful to live, we should not be deceived that the banned Okada riders in Lagos state have/would not relocated to Kwara state; no doubt about it, some of these Okada Riders are so notorious; they engage in kidnapping, cultism and robbery in Lagos. And as Eid-l-kabir draws nearer, it is expected that some of these notorious Okada Riders might come down for Sallah without returning back and in the light of this, KMG warns citizens to be more observant and ensure they patronize a registered Commercial Motor Bikes. Signed KMG

STRICT SANCTION AWAITS ENVIRONMENTAL DEFAULTERS: KWEPA WARNS The Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency (KWEPA), today in its continuous quest toward ensuring environmental nuisance in the state is overtly curtailed has again warned that strict sanction awaits any violation of its laws.   The General Manager of the agency, Alh.  Sa'ad Ayuba Dan-Musa expressed this while reacting to the disheartening event happened at Post Office axis as his officers received serious assaults in the hands of the obstinate defaulters.  "Following its numerous efforts and several sensitization both on the radio and regular routine inspection exercise, the office believes that by now good hygienic practice and strict adherence to environmental laws should have become a norm in the state. remarked, the General Manager.  It came as a rude shuck as the office (KWEPA), at the early hour today, during its routine environmental inspection at Post Office axis, received a s...