GGSS, Oromineke Wins World Environment Day Quiz Competition

Government Girls Secondary School, Oromineke, has emerged winner of a quiz competition organised by the Port Harcourt Link Club to mark the 2022 World Environment Day.
Four schools which participated in the competition are GGSS, Oromineke, CSS, Rumuepirikom,Wisdom Academy Secondary School; and Holy Child Leaders School, Rumuokwurusi.
President of the club,Mr, Friday Amadi said the competition was to involve school children as future leaders to be advocate of environmental sustainability
He charged them to see themselves as ambassadors and advocates against indiscriminate waste disposal, gas flaring and oil spillage.
He said the club had earlier on embarked on tree planting in Port Harcourt.
Also speaking, Chairman, Organising and Planning Committee of the organisation, Mr Amadi Amadi said the programme for World Environment Day celebration by the club began in 1996.
Amadi said the activities were to create awareness on the importance of environmental cleaninness and sustainability.
He charged members of the society to collaborate with one another with a view to complementing government’s effort towards environmental sustainability.
Amadi also linked climate change to human activities,saying that there must be team work to promote green pasture and called for environmental assessment on any project.
Also, the Rector of Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, Dr. Sam Kalagbor whose address was read by a Director in the school commended the club for its effort towards environmental sustainability.
He said the event will create the needed awareness on how to sustain the environment.
Kalagbor described the theme of the celebrition which was on “Only One Earth’’as apt since there is no other planet for humans to live.
He also called for environmental ethics and philosophy with focus on ethics reorientation.
A guest at the event Mr Celestine Ogolo, commended the club for the good job.
The programme which held at the school conference hall saw each participating school going home with N25,000