Nigeria is a study in contradiction. It has the largest proven gas reserve in Africa yet faces a significant challenge in providing access to gas for a majority of its citizens and businesses. On top of this, it occupies an unenviable position as one of the top seven gas-flaring countries in the world, according to the World Bank. The tale would be unbelievable if it was fiction.Sadly, the reality is grim. Oil-producing companies burn off millions of cubic litres of natural gas during oil production. They use a fancy term, gas flaring, to describe it. It doesn't however take remove from the fact that the action, gas flaring, is a glaring waste of a wasting resource. It also impacts negatively on the environment, human health and the cost of gas. It needs to be stopped.
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Thursday, January 26, 2023
Steps to Achieve ‘The Decade of Gas’ - NaijaAgroNet
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Nigeria is a study in contradiction. It has the largest proven gas reserve in Africa yet faces a significant challenge in providing access to gas for a majority of its citizens and businesses. On top of this, it occupies an unenviable position as one of the top seven gas-flaring countries in the world, according to the World Bank. The tale would be unbelievable if it was fiction.Sadly, the reality is grim. Oil-producing companies burn off millions of cubic litres of natural gas during oil production. They use a fancy term, gas flaring, to describe it. It doesn't however take remove from the fact that the action, gas flaring, is a glaring waste of a wasting resource. It also impacts negatively on the environment, human health and the cost of gas. It needs to be stopped.
Nigeria is a study in contradiction. It has the largest proven gas reserve in Africa yet faces a significant challenge in providing access to gas for a majority of its citizens and businesses. On top of this, it occupies an unenviable position as one of the top seven gas-flaring countries in the world, according to the World Bank. The tale would be unbelievable if it was fiction.Sadly, the reality is grim. Oil-producing companies burn off millions of cubic litres of natural gas during oil production. They use a fancy term, gas flaring, to describe it. It doesn't however take remove from the fact that the action, gas flaring, is a glaring waste of a wasting resource. It also impacts negatively on the environment, human health and the cost of gas. It needs to be stopped.
Monday, July 30, 2018
FG commits to achieve SDG’s goal 6 in water sector - NaijaAgroNet
The Federal Government (FG) of Nigeria has inaugurated members
of the National Coordination Implementation Core Team on SDGs goal 6. as a show
of commitment, reports NaijaAgroNet.
In his address to the inauguration, made available to NaijaAgroNet, the Permanent
Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Dr Ibrahim W. Musa has inaugurated the
members of National Coordination Implementation Core Team on SDGs goal 6. as a
show of commitment.
Dr. Musa noted that Nigeria did not achieve the targets of
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for water and sanitation and that at the
close of MDGs, national access to water supply and sanitation were 69% and 29%
respectively. This implies that substantial percentages of the population are
still drawing water from unprotected sources. In the same vein, about 70% of
Nigerians so not have access to improved and unshared sanitation facilities.
National estimate of open defecation rate is 25% which indicates that open
defecation is still prevalent across the country.
Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations Unit at the Ministry,
Rotimi Ajayi, also quoted the Permanent Secretary maintained that it
has become expedient to organize this 2-day workshop in order to
provide veritable platform for key actors and players to interact and share
their experiences with a view to attaining some key objectives which includes
to develop co-ordination mechanism for all SDGs intended projects, agree and
develop strategies action plans that will fast track the implementation of SDGs
related projects in the water sector, assess the funding strategies towards the
achievement of SDGs and collate data/information that would be useful for
effective monitoring of progress in the sector, amongst others.
NaijaAgroNet gathered that the workshop’s with the theme, ”National
Coordination workshop on tracking of the achievements of SDG 6 in the Water
Sector” was organized to share experiences, challenges encountered in the
course of implementation of water supply and sanitation projects and proffer
solutions.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Director Water Resources
Planning and Technical Support Services, Engr. Gerald Osuagwu said that the
task of the workshop is to take advantage of the various papers presented as
well as the discussion session to fashion out an appropriate mechanism to track
the SDG 6 in the water sector.
He noted that the main objective of constituting the
National Coordination Implementation Core Team is to ensure that real time data
on all water and sanitation facilities are collected and processed on regular
basis and by so doing, a reliable data base on the progress of SDGs in water
and sanitation projects will be achieved.
The high-point of the workshop was the inauguration of the
members of National Coordination Implementation Core Team on SDGs goal 6 by the
Permanent Secretary.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Tourism can't achieve potentials without sustainability - Minister
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, has said that sustainability is absolutely necessary if tourism is to
achieve its full potentials, which include being a catalyst for economic growth
and poverty eradication, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Speaking in London, Wednesday to mark the 2017 World Tourism
Day, he said, without sustainability, tourism cannot generate benefits to all
stakeholders, solve serious problems such as extreme poverty, and preserve
precious natural and man-made resources on which human prosperity is based.
Referring to the theme of this year's World Tourism Day,
which is 'Sustainable Tourism - Tool for Development', he said Member States of
the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) are encouraged to make sure that
their policies and actions for tourism development and management fully embrace
the principles of sustainability.
''The sustainability principles refer to the environmental,
economic and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development, and a suitable balance
must be established among these three dimensions to guarantee its long-term
sustainability,'' Alhaji Mohammed said.
He said that in the context of the universal 2030 Agenda for
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations General Assembly
designated 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for
Development, underscoring its power to help eradicate poverty.
''Tourism was singled out in three of the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals of sustainable economic growth and decent employment, sustainable
production and consumption, and the conservation and sustainable use of oceans
(Goals 8,12 & 14).
''Today, tourism generates 10% of the world’s GDP, one in
every 10 jobs, and 30% of world trade in services. It is key to many countries’
economies and livelihoods. It has evolved from an industry engaged in and
patronized only by the rich and elites of the society, to an industry enjoyed
by all with significant impact on the nation’s economy.
''As an invisible export, tourism creates a flow of foreign
currency into the economy of a nation through public revenue which comes in the
form of taxes, duties, licenses etc; business revenue derived from services
provided by restaurants, hotels, transport, shops etc and from local resident
revenue which come in the form of wages, salaries, rent, interests in
investments. Most of these revenues especially those that accrue to the business
establishments and the local residents are usually ploughed back into the
economy to create additional business thereby generating grater revenues and
increasing employment opportunities,'' the Minister said.
He said while Government will play its part in the
development and management of tourism and in making it more sustainable, the
real key to making Nigeria's tourism industry flourish lies with the industry itself
and the businesses and organizations at its heart.
''Governments use a number of mechanisms to encourage
greater private-sector engagement, capturing its expertise in ways that will be
beneficial to the companies themselves as well as population. The private
sector, on the other hand, has an opportunity to work collaboratively with
government to yield unprecedented returns in both economic and human capital,
and fulfilling the promise of a more equitable, productive, and prosperous
global community,'' Alhaji Mohammed said.
Overall, he said, sustainable tourism requires the informed participation
of all relevant stakeholders, as well as strong political leadership to ensure
wide participation and consensus building.
The idea of World Tourism Day was initiated by a Nigerian,
late Mr. Ignatius Amaduwa Atigbi, the then Secretary General of the Nigeria Tourism
Association (NTA), now Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), and
Chairman of Africa Travel Commission (ATC). It was adopted at the 22nd General
Assembly of the International Union of Official Travel Organizations (IUOTO) in
1971.
The 27th of September of every year is marked as the World
Tourism Day to create awareness for tourism as a tool for economic growth and
promotion of international peace and understanding.
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