18 MAY

FG sets June for Ogoni clean-up

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.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/fg-sets-june-ogoni-clean/

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