{"id":77543,"date":"2025-10-27T06:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77543"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:11:17","slug":"ex-head-of-civil-service-urges-fg-to-declare-katampe-hill-a-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/27\/ex-head-of-civil-service-urges-fg-to-declare-katampe-hill-a-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Head of Civil Service Urges FG to Declare Katampe Hill a National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Prof. Oladapo Abiodun Afolabi, has called on the Federal Government to declare Katampe Hill and Waterfalls in Abuja a National Park to protect Nigeria\u2019s environmental heritage and promote eco-tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Afolabi made the call at the unveiling of the \u201cWhere Rivers Are Born, Save Katampe Hill and Waterfalls\u201d campaign in Abuja, organised by the Foundation for the Conservation of Nigerian Rivers (FCNR), in partnership with the Earth Law Centre, USA,Africa Program.<\/p>\n<p>Represented by Bayero Kasim, a former director at the Environment Ministry, Afolabi described Katampe as \u201cthe heart of Nigeria and the birthplace of rivers,\u201d stressing that national park status would preserve its fragile ecosystem and boost sustainable tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Irikefe V. Dafe, Executive Director of FCNR, said the initiative seeks to restore sacred headwaters, advocate legal personhood for rivers, and reconnect communities, especially youth with nature.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Austin Maho, Vice Chairman of the Katampe Residents Association, pledged residents\u2019 support, calling the effort a timely move to halt encroachment and environmental degradation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Prof. Oladapo Abiodun Afolabi, has called on the Federal Government to declare Katampe Hill and Waterfalls in Abuja a National Park to protect Nigeria\u2019s environmental heritage and promote eco-tourism. Afolabi made the call at the unveiling of the \u201cWhere Rivers Are Born, Save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77544,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77543\/revisions\/77544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}