Abuja — The Senate Wednesday began moves to address the lingering threats of desertification and drought in the country as a bill seeking to establish the National Agency for the Great Green Wall in Nigeria scaled second reading.
The bill seeks to manage drought, desertification and also spell out control measures. Leading debate on the bill, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, outlined the threats of desertification to Nigeria.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article