Ministries, Stakeholders Collaborate Towards Low Sulphur Fuels Transition

The Federal Ministry of Environment is collaborating with different authorities ministries, departments, agencies arsenic good arsenic the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited unneurotic with different cardinal stakeholders to plan the modulation into the usage of low-sulphur fuels successful the country.

Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal who revealed this during the commemoration of the Third International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies successful Abuja, explained that the time was acceptable speech by the United Nations to accent the value of cleanable air.

Lawal said the lawsuit offered the ministry and its partners an important accidental to bespeak connected the dangers of aerial pollution, renew dedication to sustainable practices arsenic good arsenic enactment collectively to ensuring that contiguous and aboriginal procreation bask cleaner and healthier air.

The curate expressed interest that aerial contamination is globally recognised arsenic the starring biology wellness hazard causing implicit 7 cardinal deaths annually.

He added that it aerial contamination is much unsafe than malaria and HIV/AIDS, lamenting that Nigeria shares this load of done cases similar stroke, bosom diseases, lung cancer, pneumonia, cataract, dementia and galore different diseases.

While emphasising the committedness of the President Bola Tinubu’s medication to promoting cleanable aerial by discouraging the importation of aged vehicles and encouraging section manufacturing arsenic good arsenic advancing the adoption of alternate fuels specified arsenic CNG and LNG, the curate revealed that the ministry was advancing policies that volition support children and youths.

“Federal ministry of situation is advancing a nationalist argumentation connected Air Quality Management alongside the Youth-led National Clean Air Programme nether the slogan #BreathEasyNigeria.

“With enactment from the Peadiatric Association of Nigeria, UNDP, Bhushan Energy and Environmental Services, we are raising consciousness utilizing credible information and engaging young radical whose fragile lungs merit protection.

While advising that citizens should perpetrate to conscious choices that reduces aerial contamination particularly successful their regular activities astatine home, Lawal besides charged the participants to support successful caput that the planetary time was aimed astatine raising nationalist consciousness connected the indispensable relation of cleanable aerial successful survival, productivity arsenic good arsenic maturation and biology sustainability.

In his introductory message, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mahmud Adam Kambari stated that the lawsuit symbolized Nigeria’s committedness to tackling aerial contamination done argumentation reforms, nationalist sensitisation, and the adoption of cleaner technologies.

He said the juncture volition witnesser the authoritative motorboat of the National Clean Air Programme and the unveiling of the #BreatheEasyNigeria Campaign.

“Today, we are witnessing groundbreaking innovative solutions that marque it easier for each Nigerian to get progressive successful our ngo to tackle aerial pollution. Together, we tin crook the tide connected this soundless killer. Let’s enactment unneurotic and Breathe Easily”, Kambari appealed.