…Trains over 700 workers in one year
Prof Mansur Bako Matazu Director Genera, Nigeria Meteorological Agency (Nimet) |
The Director General NiMet, Prof Mansur Matazu who disclosed
this to journalists on his activities in the past one year, revealed that the
agency was also saddled with the responsibility of pollution monitoring.
Matazu explained that at present, the agency has also
acquired additional automatic weather stations which is about 200 being
implemented and installed across the country which has increased its network of
operations and also utilisation of data from such stations and information to
help improve in the precision on its forecasts
“We give glory to God for the inspiration and the support we
are getting from our parent ministry which is Federal Ministry of Aviation. We
are planning to network other stations that are not being operated by NiMet
such as stations in Nigerian River Basins Authority stations, Water Boards and
other critical areas. We are really trying to expand so that we will be able to
cover the whole of the country. This is a continuous process but presently we
have done more than 200”
He also explained that observation stations have been
expanded while the agency co-signed MoU with more than 20 universities adding
that presently, they have increased its stations by about 113 across higher
institutions in the country.
Matazu said was implementing a remodelling project for the
headquarters with phase one being completed in the next few weeks and the phase
two will give a different picture of a new NiMet.
“We have done a lot of upgrading of physical infrastructure
of synoptic stations across most of the states such as Kebbi, Gombe and so many
others of our facilities across the country. With regard to training, we have
embarked on large scale specialised training for our staff. Since I came in,
more than 700 people were trained for one year, to be able to improve on their
own productivity and effective services”
Matazu noted that one of the key achievements of the country
was election of Nigeria into the executive council of World Meteorological
Organisation (WMO) .which he attributed to the technical assistance and
leadership role that Nigeria has been providing on the African continent.
“We are also supporting more than 5 countries in West Africa
such as Sierra Leone and Liberia which we are responsible for their daily
weather forecasting services. From Abuja, we get it processed and relayed to
the meteorological services of these countries for preservation on their
national television and other media platforms.. We have also been assisting
Malawi, Mozambique and Gambia and all the English speaking West African
countries as they are get their personnel trained in our regional training
centre in Lagos”.
On renovation of crew briefing rooms, Matazu disclosed that
the agency started with the overhauling of the pilots briefing room at Murtala
Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
(NAIA), Abuja, Kano and Port Hobart.
He said NiMet has gotten approval for maintaining and
overhauling of six low level windshield system for the six major airports with
the equipment on ground and it was being installed across the airports.
Matazu said it was to boost on the existing ones, especially
the ones that they were having challenges with. “We provide conducive office
space environment for the staff across more than 70 locations in the country
including all the state capitals and other locations of marine weather
stations,upper air weather stations and of course some of our critical
forecasting stations at the airports”
The NiMet boss explained that the agency in the past one
year have embarked on more than 50 infrastructural projects across the country
that entailed renovation and upgrading of facilities.”We are constructing
climate change modelling centre at meteorology institute in Katsina
On training, the NiMet boss said the agency have embarked on
large scale specialised training for our staff with more than 700 people being
trained for one year, to be able to improve on their own productivity and
effective services.
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