The Federal Government<\/p>\n
says it is developing the operational infrastructure of the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) to boost quality weather and climate services.<\/p>\n
Ms Ann Ene-Ita, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Aviation, said this on Wednesday, in Abuja, at the Regional Climate Outlook Forum for West Africa, Cameroon and Chad.<\/p>\n
She said the provision of timely and accurate climate services was necessary to ensure safety of lives and enhance socio-economic development.<\/p>\n
Ene-Ita said West Africa was plagued with increasing challenges and risks posed by extreme weather and climate.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow and again in this sub-region, we experience drought and desertification in one area and flooding and soil erosion in another\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese events result in distortion of the ecosystem and biodiversity, loss of lives and property, food insecurity and dislocation of population,\u2019\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n
She noted that the critical agriculture sector is largely rain-fed and subject to the anomalies of seasonal rainfall.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs part of our commitment to the development of weather and climate services, Nigeria will continue to support the programmes of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO),\u2019\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n
Dr Anthony Anuforom, the Director-General of NIMET and Nigeria\u2019s Permanent Representative to WMO, said efficient climate services were needed to support sustainable development.<\/p>\n
He expressed the hope that the lessons learnt during the forum would guide participants in developing a national framework for climate services.<\/p>\n
The forum had as theme: \u201cOptimisation of Seasonal Climate Forecast in Climate Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change for Sustainable Development.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Federal Government says it is developing the operational infrastructure of the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) to boost quality weather and climate services. Ms Ann Ene-Ita, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Aviation, said this on Wednesday, in Abuja, at the Regional Climate Outlook Forum for West Africa, Cameroon and Chad. She said the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}