Tinubu Urges Extractive Firms To Embrace Low-Carbon Transition

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked companies successful Nigeria’s extractive assemblage to follow cleaner and much sustainable practices successful enactment with planetary vigor modulation goals.

At the International Conference connected Petroleum, Environment, Solid Minerals and Security (ICPESMS 2025) successful Abuja, Tinubu stressed the request for a low-carbon pathway, circular system practices and liable assemblage engagement.

Represented by the imperishable caput of the Ministry of Environment, Mahmud Adam Kambari, Tinubu said extractive operations indispensable germinate “from exploration to decommissioning” to trim state flaring, negociate discarded responsibly and reconstruct degraded lands.

“Communities affected by assets extraction merit just compensation, biodiversity extortion and a genuine committedness to remediation.

“Only done specified measures tin we physique resilience, trust, and semipermanent prosperity,” helium said.
Tinubu highlighted the relation of shared work and urged improvement partners, businesses, civilian society, academia, the media and the citizens to enactment with the authorities successful greening the sector.

“Together, we tin alteration Nigeria’s abundant resources into a level for peace, stability, and inclusive growth,” helium added.

The caput to the authorities of the federation, Senator George Akume, who echoed the president’s message, described the extractive assemblage arsenic a imaginable operator of economical transformation.

Akume, represented by Engr. Nadungu Gagare, however, warned that this committedness could lone beryllium fulfilled done inclusive governance, transparency and beardown collaboration among authorities institutions, the backstage assemblage and civilian society.

“A unchangeable and unafraid extractive assemblage is foundational to peacebuilding and nationalist cohesion,” Akume said, stressing the risks posed by unsustainable assets extraction, biology degradation and assemblage discontent.

In his invited remarks, the president of the Petroleum, Environment and Solid Mineral Degradation Awareness Association (PESMDAA), Robert Adah, said communities nationwide person been suffering the consequences of mismanaged extraction.

“From Sokoto to Lagos, Maiduguri to Port Harcourt, the outcry is the same,” Adah said. “For each blessing, determination is simply a burden, and successful our case, the load has been degradation and economical mismanagement.”

He said PESMDAA was committed to helping states amended their internally-generated gross portion ensuring the national authorities benefits from assets extraction without harming section communities.

In her goodwill message, the imperishable caput of the Ecological Project Office (EPO), Dr Aishetu Ndayako, reaffirmed her office’s committedness to erosion control, flood management, and biology restoration.

Represented by the manager of Solid Erosion and Flood Control, Eluma Garba, she said collaboration with civilian nine groups specified arsenic PESMDAA was captious to ensuring sustainable utilisation of earthy resources.

“Together, we tin safeguard our situation and fortify assemblage resilience successful enactment with planetary champion practices and Nigeria’s improvement goals,” she said.