The Northern Governors
Wives Forum (NGWF) has launched cancer prevention awareness campaign in Borno
for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to raise awareness on its menace.
The wife of Kebbi State Governor, Dr Zainab Bagudu, said this
at the campaign ceremony at Mohammed Goni IDPs camp in Maiduguri. Bagudu, who
is also the Secretary of the forum, explained that the campaign was part of the
forum’s initiative to create awareness of cancer to the IDPs and to help them
manage.
it will be recorded that Feb. 4 was celebrated as World
Cancer Day for 2020. She said that the whole week is going to be dedicated
to raising awereness of cancer not only IDPs but also other people.
Bagudu urged the people that are supervising the camp to do
more in eliminating the usage of illicit drugs.
While identifying some habits that cause cancer to include
smoking and sugar, she advised people to avoid consuming too much sugar or
avoid it totally. She added that the common cancer in Nigeria for women is
breast cancer and prostrate cancer for men.
Also speaking, Dr Falmata Zulum, Wife of the Borno State
Governor, said that they donated relief items to persons affected by the
insurgency at the IDPs camps.
Zulum reiterated that the focus of the forum
was to identify and profer solutions to the menace of drug abuse, gender based
violence and poverty among women through special empowerment intervention
programmes.
