Don’t Rule Out Possibility Of Earthquakes, Expert Tells FG

A Professor of Geo-sciences at the Rivers State University, Prof. Clifford Songho Teme, has warned the Federal Government not to rule out the possibility of earthquakes in Nigeria.
Prof Teme, the Head of the Department of Geosciences in the university told newsmen that earthquakes are possible everywhere even in Nigeria.
He said that the situation should make the Federal Government to put in place more core stations as well as repair the existing ones.
“Earthquakes can happen anywhere in the world. Federal Government has a core station at the University of Port Harcourt that has not been serviced for some times now.
“They should service and set up more core stations to monitor the position and movement of the earth” he said.
The University Don said that the Nigerian metrological agency should not claim that earthquakes are not possible in Nigeria, stressing that the agency must seek collaboration with other organisations with the view to mitigating its possible impacts, if it occurs in the country.
According to him, Nigeria must began to prepare itself for the eventualities of climate change.
Teme also said, the solutions to the incessant floodings of Rivers State and the rest of the Niger Delta lies with geologists, stressing that geologists are important in the area of good road construction and the construction of other structures such as buildings, amongst others.
He said that Nigeria needs more geoscientists to exploit the millions of minerals resources in the country.
Meanwhile, Professor Teme has said the Department of Geosciences, Rivers State University is in an advanced stage of acquiring a linkage programme with the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and planetary Sciences of the prestigious “Big Ten” Purdue University, USA.
He said this during an event in the university.