 Today is World Malaria Day, a day set aside by the World Health Organization, WHO, to create awareness and mobilize support for the Malaria Elimination Programme. This year's theme is Time to Deliver Zero Malaria, Invest, Innovate, Implement. In BIALSA, the State Ministry of Health, in conjunction with the WHO and Chief or She Initiative, an NGO, organized a roadwork to sensitize BIALSINS on the need for them to play the part and ensure that malaria is eradicated completely from the state. The sensitization took off from Ekeki and was terminated at the State Secretariat in Yenagwa. What we are doing now, the movement is to eliminate malaria. A lot of countries have achieved that feat. It is a difficult feat, but I know with all of the efforts we want to put together, all of the partners we want to collaborate with, we can join the rest of the world to eliminate malaria from BIALSA and from this country. That is very possible. We need to invest a lot more. We need to innovate and we need to implement all of the strategies we think we want and we are able to deliver. We are able to reduce the impact of malaria and get to a state where we can say we have zero tolerance for malaria and that we have eliminated malaria from the state and from the country. It's a day set aside by the WHO every year, 25th of April, to raise awareness and highlight the importance of malaria as a public health disease, to ensure that people are aware that this is a problem, this is a disease that is treatable, that is preventable and that is curable. So we need to do everything within our capacity, both as individuals, as families, as institutions, as governments to ensure that we eradicate malaria. We bring malaria to zero in the country and in Nigeria. It is very important for us to raise awareness about malaria and as well as ensure that we sensitize the public on what the Global Malaria Elimination Programme is planning to achieve as a theme for this year. As you can see from the different banners and the shirts that we're wearing, the theme for this year is achieving zero malaria and innovate, invest, innovate and implement. It is important for us to ensure that we create the right level of awareness and information so that the people can know what's their roles, the different roles of the different people, organizations, stakeholders that are involved, that have a part or the other to play as far as the elimination of malaria is concerned. I would tell you that malaria is extremely prevalent, especially among the vulnerable group, the children who are under the age of five, as well as the pregnant women and that is why it is important for us not to ensure that, not just to ensure that we reduce the mortality which is death that stem from the malaria infection, but also the incidence of it ensuring that malaria transmission is completely stopped as far as biological state is concerned.