The Director-General of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Prof. Mansur Matazu, has expressed concern that Nigeria’s loss of $4.6bn due to flooding had negative effects on the nation’s Gross Domestic Product.
The NiMet boss disclosed this at a one-day high-level advocacy workshop on ramping up access to climate information services for national development and food security in Nigeria, organised by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda, on Wednesday in Abuja.
He noted, “This flood has cost the country over $4.6 billion, and that is a significant weight on our GDP.
“Notwithstanding, we are recovering very fast, and the government has already commissioned a presidential committee to come up with lasting solutions to floods and see how we can better utilise the flood waters, which mostly come up from within the country, to improve our agriculture.
“The agency is working assiduously to align with the present government’s policy in…