Council Unveils Agenda To Combat Desertification, Poverty

Newly inaugurated president of the National Council for the Great Green Wall, Senatus Magnus Abe, has unveiled an docket to combat desertification, trim poorness and beforehand sustainable improvement crossed Nigeria’s dryland regions.

Abe made this known astatine the induction and familiarisation programme for caller committee members of the National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW), held successful Abuja nether the theme: “Green Leadership, Good Governance: Aligning Roles for Environmental Impact.”

A property connection signed by the agency’s head, Information and Public Relations, Amina Ahmed Garba revealed that the president expressed profound gratitude to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the curate of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal for entrusting him with the work to pb the Council. He pledged to uphold the principles of integrity, transparency and accountability successful steering the affairs of the Great Green Wall project.

Describing the inaugural arsenic a “vision of survival, resilience, and hope,” Sen. Abe noted that millions of Nigerians beryllium connected the programme’s occurrence to reclaim degraded lands, rebuild livelihoods and fortify clime resilience.

He said the Great Green Wall represents acold much than histrion planting, “It embodies a nationalist ngo to reconstruct the environment, foster peace, and alleviate poorness successful communities threatened by desertification and drought”.

He further emphasised the request to alteration the bureau into a hub for greenish jobs and sustainable livelihoods done agroforestry, renewable energy, h2o harvesting and onshore restoration.

In his address, the manager wide and main enforcement serviceman of the National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW), Saleh Abubakar, commended the inauguration of the 3rd council, describing it arsenic a renewed telephone to service. He reminded members that their assignment came astatine a clip erstwhile the satellite faces sedate biology challenges, with desertification, drought and nutrient insecurity posing existential threats to millions of Nigerians.

Abubakar urged members to embody greenish enactment defined by empathy, foresight and technological innovation. He called for the alignment of imaginativeness with execution, stressing that the agency’s policies indispensable construe into tangible results for communities crossed the affected regions.

He reaffirmed the agency’s committedness to transparency, collaboration and community-driven action, adding that the Great Green Wall indispensable basal arsenic a awesome of bully governance and biology stewardship for generations to come.