 In a bold move towards a healthier future, youth in carnal states under the ages of protecting and activating communities against tobacco-packed, of cold and higher institutions to enact smoke-free spaces in campuses. The call was made in an event tagged Paint the Change which featured a variety of educational activities including the use of art to raise awareness of the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and the link between tobacco use and cancer. This is in a bid to stress the importance of creating a smoke-free environment. According to the World Health Organization, modern 16,100 Nigerians are killed by tobacco-cost disease yearly and modern 25,000 children aged 10 to 14 years old and 7.4 million adults from 15 years and above continue to use tobacco each day. I am calling on highest petition, especially in Bairi University, Kamau and Yushu Mekama Suley University, though we hold advocacy with them to enact laws on smoke-free spaces. And then yes, we have gained commitment towards securing that due to the alarming statistics whereby 27 million Nigerians, especially youth, are being affected by second-hand smoke. There are a lot of youths in university and most of these smokers we are seeing are youths. So when you control the smoke intake among youths, I think you've made a very big change in the environment. That's why we focus on institution and universities. We are even targeting secondary school students so that we catch them young. There are actually three types of smoking. So there's first-hand smoking in which the person is the smoker and then there's second-hand smoking, which the person is sitting around people that smoke. Both are equally dangerous. Maybe second-hand smoking in some cases is even more dangerous. And then there's one that has been recently discussed is which is the third-hand smoking, which is the type of smoking that when people smoke in a particular area, it is, research has shown that the residue from the tobacco smoking, the chemicals will still pass it in that environment and they can still cause harm. I call on all the school management actually to take heed of these places and enact laws and make sure that they stand by the law so that people actually follow the laws instead of harming everybody. And meanwhile, Governor Aguilque has plans to invest more in tourism development to boost the state's internal generated revenue, IGR. But if tourism can fund the administrations free education policy and other projects across the 16 local government areas, the governor aims to change the negative narrative of exploiting mineral resources and labeling the state as poor. Professor Leslie Rogers promises to use his connections to attract investors and reveal the state's excess wealth in tourism and agriculture, which if harnessed will significantly improve the IGR. I came seven years ago was money and economic development by and large. I want to highly comment on his excellence in Dr. Aguilque first for dampening into trying to diversify the the sausage of revenue of the state. Tourism is one aspect we are very blessed with here in Naraba state and I count it as the welcome development, trying to divert our source of revenue swinging into the tourism. I'm sure an optimistic that bringing in tourism Naraba is going to restate and regenerate more revenue that will lead to us meaningful development. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.