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Nigeria: Canvasses Collaboration With Unido
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
28 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008
Nasidi Adamu Yahaya
The Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs. Halima Tayo Alao, has called for more collaboration between Nigeria and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in order to tackle environmental hiccups in the country.
She made this call during a visit by a delegation of UNIDO led by its Director-General, Dr. Kandeh Yumkella, in her office in Abuja.
The Minister urged UNIDO to continue to provide technical expertise and support in all the programmes and projects of the Ministry, pointing out that environmental issues are key to national development.
According to the Minister, industrial pollution is a key problem in the country and therefore sought urgent steps to mitigate its effects on the nation.
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On the Green Development Mechanism (GDM) project, the Minister called on UNIDO to consider a more pragmatic approach in order to make it effective and relevant to the country.
Also speaking, the Director of Pollution Control, in the ministry, Dr.Olusegun Dada, the said the Ministry was working on areas such as the Lagos Lagoon remediation programme, Ozone Village concept, etc as part of efforts to curb erosion.
In his response, the Director General of UNIDO, Dr. Yumkella, commended the efforts of the country in the implementation of measures to provide a better and safer environment for its citizens and pledged the organisation's continuous support for the programmes and projects of the ministry.
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