Climate Change: Lack Of Strategy Bars Nigeria From Foreign Aid

An environmentalist, Sulaiman Arigbabu, while speaking on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily said a National Response Strategy disqualifies Nigeria from receiving funds from external … Continue reading Climate Change: Lack Of Strategy Bars Nigeria From Foreign Aid


An environmentalist, Sulaiman Arigbabu, while speaking on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily said a National Response Strategy disqualifies Nigeria from receiving funds from external bodies, adding that there is need for a National Climate Change Commission.

Mr Arigbabu said it would be impossible for Nigeria to receive funds from international bodies if there is no structure or action plan put in place to champion the cause appropriately.

Citing Kenya as a country which has gone ahead to institute proper structure, he disclosed that “the world is taking them serious” because they have policy in place.

He said that all efforts to get the government to institute a National Climate Change Commission have failed.

“Nigeria cannot be a recipient of most of these things because we don’t have a strategy” he said.

Mr Arigbabu called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to come up with a National Response Strategy to climate change. He said giving funds will not solve the problem.

“You don’t throw money at problems,” he said.