The Executive Director, Nigeria Integrated Water Resources Management Commission (NIWRMC), Magashi Bashir has warned against indiscriminate drilling of borehole across the country. Bashir gave the warning when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), flagship programme, Forum on Friday in Abuja. According to him, the commission is making every effort to address the […]
The ministries of Power, Works and Housing and Water Resources will take the largest share if eventually Nigeria secures the $30bn loan it intends to get from different multilateral organisations. According to a statement by Ajuri Ngelale, President Muhammadu Buhari’s special assistant on Public Affairs, shows that the planned projects spreads across different sectors of […]
It is a common knowledge that the Ijaw Youths Council recently issued a release which among other remarks stated that; if the government should reintroduce what they referred to as inimical and controversial water Resources Bill which was formally stepped down by the 8th Assembly after much public outcry; that Southern Nigeria people will do […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has won the latest round in the legal battle to compel the Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Audu Ogbeh to account for the spending of trillion of naira on water projects between 1999 and 2016. Justice Hadiza […]
Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has said that it had developed a strategic document to ensure that the country attains an Open Defecation Free (ODF) status by the year 2025. Permanent Secretary, in the Ministry, Dr Musa Ibrahim stated this on Monday in Calabar, Cross River State capital, during the certification […]
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has disclosed that his ministry budgets about N1bn annually for the supply of water and sanitation services to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) ravaged by the activities of insurgents in the North-East. Adamu also stated that the Federal Government was working out measures that would enable it transfer water […]
The Nigerian Association of Hydrologists (NAH), has warned of an impending water crisis by 2020 because of the poor management of groundwater basins. The association president’s, Ehidiamhen Olumese gave the warning on Sunday in Ilorin while addressing newsmen after the association’s National Executive Meeting (NEC). Olumese said the impending crisis could be avoided by the […]