(http://fmi.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Hadiza-Ibrahim-Mailafia-300x224.jpg) The Minister of environment, Hajia Hadiza Maila-fiya, has asserted that since her Ministry has the mandate to ensure that the nation develops in harmony with the environment; it has been doing just that through many fronts and policy formulations.
The Minister stated that her Ministry has engaged in natural resources conservation, sustainable development of the Nigerian environment and environmental protection. She further emphasised on the key performance indicators of her Ministry: achieving a clean and healthy environment, restoration of degraded sites, increasing the nation's vegetation cover, conservation of biodiversity, provision of effective and efficient administrative framework for environmental management, articulating and enforcing environmental laws and regulation, giving guidelines and standards and ensuring environmental awareness.
The Minister was speaking at the on-going 2013 Ministerial Platforms when she said that "Every State of the federation suffers from environmental problem or the other in varying degrees. She attributed most of these problems to general poor attitude towards the environment with lots of scepticism, low level of intervention in environmental management by States, poor compliances with existing policies and regulations on environmental issues.
(http://fmi.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Maku-and-Mailafia.jpg) (http://fmi.gov.ng/ministry-ensures-nigeria-is-developing-in-harmony-with-her-environment-mailafiya-environment-minister/maku-and-mailafia/)(L-R) Minister of Information, Labaran Maku; Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia The Environment Minister remarked further that "Since the present administration's agenda includes "transforming the environment and the way we do things", the Ministry has been able to reduce vulnerability to soil erosion in the South-East. By this, she said 64 erosion and flood control projects were being executed nationwide and they are at various stages of completion. "Also, 225,000ha of land had been rehabilitated including the establishment of green wall or shelterbelt for some States, provision of water and other social infrastructure"; the Minister reported.
Mailafiya also said that the Ministry trained and certified 200 environment health officers for employment by the Jigawa State Government. Additionally, she said, "366 environmental health officers were registered. Most importantly, Nigeria through the Ministry has continued to provide purposeful leadership at various International fora as representatives of the West African sub-region, the African continent, Non-aligned nations, as well as developing nations
Via: Federal Ministry of Information (FMI) Nigeria