it is presently being argued that there is paucity of data for mainstreaming of climate change in development issues, and there is an urgent need to reverse this trend by generating abundant data and statistics that will enhance the application of key performance indicators for the purpose of effective monitoring and evaluation.
One is very positive and hopeful that with adherence to the solutions proffered during the two
day south-south regional intensive training workshop contained in the communiqué issued after the overall plenary that were discussed elsewhere in this feature, coupled with my personal suggestions in this story will go a long way in taming climate change disasters thereby enabling both government and the people to concentrate on programmes, policies, projects and activities that will eventually enhance the determination of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration to move the nation forward thereby achieving the desired change. Additionally, University lecturers should be financially motivated to carry out research in various fields of knowledge related to climate change, so that innovative research can contribute to practical solutions. Furthermore, policy makers, school administrators, teachers, parents, and students should embark on raising awareness of climate change in Nigeria.
Also, appropriate technologies for adaptation and mitigation should be deployed at all levels, while there should be strengthening of the weak human capacity and infrastructure for mainstreaming climate change in national development. As part of the efforts to mainstream the climate change,, the Federal government has proactively taken steps in addressing environmental problems. These include effective management of waste, flood and coastal erosion. It has also built up our advocacy programmes through workshops, seminars, public lectures, media campaign, climate change and waste water summits, tree planting land reclamation, landscaping and beautification, campaign against desertification through the desert warriors, and control of land, water, noise and air pollution. Allied to this, the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative is a planned project to plant a wall of trees across Africa at the southern edge of the Sahara desert as a means to prevent desertification . It is to be implemented in Nigeria in eleven frontline States of Adamawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Yobe and Borno. It will cover 43 LGAs in the frontline states to be covered to rehabilitate 225,000 Ha of lands. It involves establishment of green wall or shelterbelt from Kebbi State to Borno State, a distance of 1,500 km and 15 km wide, Community Sensitization & Mobilization, Promotion of alternative sources of energy, promotion of alternative means of livelihoods, Promotion of dry land agricultural technology and promoting alternative water source for human, plant and animal use through solar powered boreholes, with over 300 functional boreholes in operation as at early September 2016.
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