ABUJA—The Federal Government, yesterday, fixed June this
year to commence the clean up of environmental pollution in the oil-rich Niger
Delta region.
Minister of Enviroment, Mrs. Amina Muhammed, said that the
government was working diligently to review and update its first National
Implementation Plan, NIP, developed in 2009 to address the problem of pollution
holistically in the region. Muhammed, who stated this at the National
Stakeholders’ Endorsement Workshop for the Reviewed and Updated National
Implementation Plan, NIP, for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic
Pollutants, POPs, held in Abuja, solicited the cooperation of all stakeholders.
The minister represented by her Minister of State, Ibrahim
Jibril, said that they would be guided by experts from the United Nations on
Environment to ensure productive exercise.
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