Federal Ministry of Environment (Nigeria)

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The Federal Ministry of Environment is a ministry of the Federal Government of Nigeria created in 1999 with a mandate to address environmental issues and to ensure the effective coordination of all environmental matters in the country. [1] The ministry works to ensure the control of environmental issues and the protection and conservation of natural resources. It also formulates policies and supervises activities for curbing desertification and deforestation;the management of flood, erosion and pollution, as well as climate change and clean energy.

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Balarabe Abbas Lawal is the current Minister of Environment; he took charge of the affairs of the ministry in October, 2023 after he was appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Responsibilities

The ministry plays various roles involving the national goals on desertification, deforestation, pollution, and waste management. It also superintends over climate change and clean energy issues and enforces environmental standards and regulations in different parts of the country.

The ministry fulfills its responsibilities through its departments and parastatals. Some of these parastatals include: National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), National Park Service (NPS), National Agency for the Great Green Wall, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), and National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA). [2] [3]

The ministry also supervises and provides fund for research institutes such as the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), and the Environmental Health and Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON), among others.

The United Nations Conference of Parties 27

The minister for environment Mohammed Hassan Abdullahi was appointed by president Muhammadu Buhari to represent him [4] by leading other delegate ministers to the United Nations Conference of Parties 27 (COP27)held in November 2022 in Egypt. [5] [6] [7]

Past Ministers of Environment

Achievements of the Ministry

One of the major achievements of the Federal Ministry of Environment is the initiation of the Ogoniland clean-up programme of the Nigerian government. [8] [9] Ogoniland is one of the communities in the oil-rich Niger Delta region that has been devastated by the exploration activities of oil producing companies. Other achievements of the ministry and its parastatals include the Clean and Green initiatives in the States of Nigeria, Great Green Wall Programme, and the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project. [10] [11] [12]

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