The Chairman State Steering Committee and Honourable Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Solomon Ogunji, recently took a tour round Abia NEWMAP project sites across the State. In the company of Permanent Secretary Ministry of Environment and management team, Abia NEWMAP Project Coordinator and field officers and some media personnels, the exhausative tour covered NEWMAP five (5) gully erosion sites at UUMUOGELE UMUAKWU & UMUEZEUKWU NSULU in Isiala Ngwa north local government area, UMUAGU IBEKU & AMUZUKWU IBEKU in Umuahia north local government area and AMUDA ACHARA in Umunneochi local government area. These pictures tell the remaining stories……
Hon. Minister of State Environment Flags-off NEWMAP Training on Catchment Planning and Management.
The Honourable Minister of State Environment, Mr. Ibrahim Usman Jibril has urged participants to leverage on the catchment planning and management training for successful project implementation. The Minister stated this on Monday, 1st August 2016 in Anambra state...
NEWMAP: Restoring the landscape of degraded areas in South East Nigeria
BY Adebayo Thomas The environment is naturally blessed with dynamic resources that include vegetation, waters, soils and animals. However the naturality of the plush vegetation, aquatic lives gets degraded, polluted and depleted courtesy of human activities. However,...