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The Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Professor Charles Anosike, has called for accrued enactment crossed sectors to boost outgo betterment and fortify the agency’s work delivery.
Speaking astatine the 2025 Stakeholders’ Forum themed “Early Warnings: Raising Awareness connected Climate Risks and Promoting Early Action”, Anosike stressed that sustaining NiMet’s operations required accordant investment.
“We person relied chiefly connected outgo betterment for sustainability, and contempt the constricted resources disposable to the agency, work prime has ne'er been compromised,” helium said.
He further stated that: “We are perpetually expanding the scope of our services successful enactment with NiMet’s constitution mandate, and hence, we request enactment crossed assorted sectors to retrieve much costs and amended connected our wide work delivery.”
Anosike highlighted the agency’s achievements, including the deployment of the Electronic Flight Folder (e-Flight Folder) to regenerate manually prepared and collected formation folders, and the caller certification of Enugu Airport to ISO standards, bringing the full fig of ISO-certified airports to five.
He besides emphasised the value of partnerships and collaborations successful enhancing the agency’s services, citing examples of partnerships with stakeholders specified arsenic MTN Nigeria, and the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
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The NiMet DG noted that the agency’s services are crosscutting, and the forum would item further details connected the agency’s products and services, including meteorological services for aviation, agriculture, marine and bluish economy, catastrophe hazard reduction, and nationalist upwind services.
Anosike expressed his gratitude to the Federal Government, the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, and different stakeholders for their enactment and looked guardant to fruitful deliberations astatine the forum.
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