As part of efforts to protect and preserve the environment, the minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, has expressed the federal government’s commitment to collaborate with the traditional institutions on clean cooking and advocacy against tree felling.
The minister disclosed this when the Emir of Nasarawa and former minister of Environment, His Royal Highness, Alh. Ibrahim Usman Jibrin, paid a courtesy visit to the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja.
Balarabe stated that the ministry was doing a lot in tackling environmental challenges such as plastic waste, erosion and flood, desertification, drought control and other climate change challenges.
He assured the visiting Emir that being the former minister of Environment, he would build on his legacy and achieve the mandate of the ministry in line with the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda on environment.
Earlier, the emir commended the staff of the ministry for tackling environmental challenges in the country and assured the minister of the traditional institutions unalloyed support to achieve the mandate of the ministry.
