World Earth Day: Federal Capital Territory Shows Commitment To Preserve Environment 

As the world commemorates 2022 World Earth Day, the FCT Administration has pledged its commitment to meeting its obligations in preserving the environment and ensuring that mother nature serves all that depend on it for lives and livelihood responsibly.

FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, who spoke at the commemoration of the World Earth Day in Abuja, however, called on the education sector to ensure that environmental subjects are taught in schools from foundation classes.

The minister who was represented by the FCTA Permanent Secretary, Mr. Olusade Adesola, also called on community-based organisations to be fully involved in spreading the message and taking positive actions to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

Aliyu, however, described the commitment of majority of nations across the world to keep faith with efforts of protecting the environment including resolutions reached at the World Climate Change Conference as heartwarming and encouraging.

The minister however regretted that due to human activities such as over-consumption, population growth and technology, the biophysical environment is being degraded resulting to adverse and extreme weather phenomena such as flooding, heatwaves, hurricanes, typhoons and desertification.

Aliyu, therefore, called for collective and sustained efforts of all, stressing that mass mobilization and awareness campaigns should be stepped up to galvanize the public into taking positive actions against the dangers facing mankind due to the degradation of the environment.

In his remarks, the FCTA Permanent Secretary, Mr. Olusade Adesola, who was represented by the Director Operation, Planning and Strategy, Mr. Atang Samuel, noted that the occasion has provided the global community a sense of shared responsibility and a common goal to protect the earth, the source of livelihood.

The Permanent Secretary noted that, in their quest for economic growth and development, they have engaged in activities that are inimical to the Earth, which are responsible for the complete disappearance of some species and the acceleration of the climate change.

He further explained that the good news is that governments around the world are making serious effort in reducing carbon footprint by regenerating the environment through various initiatives such as planting of trees, introduction of policies aimed at achieving cleaner rivers and skies and reducing global warming.