Discontinues 25% discount on state-owned transport services
Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to implementing sustainable environmental policies aimed at mitigating climate change effects, promoting a circular economy and ensuring environmental protection against drought and desertification.
In achieving this, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), in a statement, yesterday, promised to scale up its advocacy campaigns in schools and colleges to carry youths along in the implementation of the reform policies geared towards combating climate change and greenhouse effect for sustainable environmental growth.
It stated that as part of its school advocacy programmes for the World Environment Day celebration for 2024, it is partnering with Dangote Industries and the Nigerian Breweries to sponsor an essay competition among undergraduate students across all tertiary institutions in the state as a way of involving youths in the task of environmental preservation.
LASEPA’s General Manager, Dr Tunde Ajayi, who disclosed this during a pre-event media briefing held at Alausa in Ikeja, said that the essay competition aimed at raising the consciousness of youths on environmental preservation, desertification and other climate change mitigating efforts towards achieving a sustainable environment for a healthy living.
The theme of 2024 World Environment Day, according to the LASEPA’s boss, is: “Land Restoration, Desertification and Drought Resilience,” which also forms the topic on which undergraduate participants in the competition will be tasked.
He said participating students are expected to give a write-up that would address environmental challenges in the state while exploring innovative solutions that could be useful in policy formulation.
The general manager revealed that the essay competition would be open to undergraduate students of all tertiary institutions in the state and would attract a cash prize of N500,000 for the overall winner, while the second and third runners-up would go home with N300,000 and N200, 000 respectively.
Ajayi further said that there would be other consolation prizes for the participants in the competition, including becoming LASEPA’s ambassador on environmental protection, gaining free access to LASEPA e-Library and LASEPA ISO-certified laboratories and other facilities for learning and research development.
He, therefore, urged undergraduates across all tertiary institutions in the state to take the advantage of the competition to enrich themselves in knowledge and material resources, adding that every undergraduate student in all tertiary institutions in the state is qualified to participate in the competition and that the entry for participation closes on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
Ajayi urged interested undergraduate students to visit info@lasepa.gov.ng or the agency’s other social media handles.
MEANWHILE,the state government has discontinued the 25 per cent discount on state-owned transport services.
The announcement was sighted on Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) official X handle.
