Minna — Nigeria is susceptible to climate change-induced disasters, Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey has warned. Odey said yesterday in Minna that climate induced disasters may soon affect the country as he maintained that research had revealed that Nigeria would succumb to the adverse effects of climate change.

The minister's representative, Mrs. Olabisi Jaji, who was speaking at the commencement of the visit of Task Force members of the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adaptive Land Use (WASCAL) said the Federal Government would address the situation.

Odey added that the government had moved to make the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna a centre of excellence to tackle the effects of climate change in the country.

She said government had embarked on designing a resilient land use system to restore the ecosystem as another means of tackling the effects of climate change.

The minister appealed to the German government to increase activities on the provision of technical know-how to the country and the West African sub region on managing the effect of climate change, saying urgency was required.

Leader of the German delegation, Dr Henk Van Liempts, said his government would establish two climate change centers in Africa, locating one in West Africa and the other in South Africa .

The Vice Chancellor of the university Professor Mohammed Audu, assured the team that the institution had the capacity to manage the proposed project of hosting a centre of excellence for climate change. He added that the institution can establish a post graduate program me within WASCAL framework.