The Minister For Environment Balarabe Abass Lawal Says the President Tinubu’s led Administration is committed To Ensuring Clean Air Quality For Nigerians free from Carbon Emissions, Sulphur Oxide and other Pollutants that constitute Danger To Human Health.
The Minister who was represented at the inauguration of an Air quality Monitoring station in Lagos,noted that the recent world quality air report of Nigeria rated as the third most Polluted Country in Africa was unacceptable.
AIR QUALITY MONITORING
F.G Expresses Commitment To Ensure Clean Air For Nigerians
Air Pollution from Power Plants ,Waste Disposal, Vehicular Emissions and other human sources have been linked to Health Issues like Cancer of the lungs ,Pneumonia, Asthma And chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases.
Since Air Pollutants can not be monitored with the human sensory Organs,the need for a reliable Air quality Monitoring system to give accurate data for informed decisions and appropriate intervention to control human exposure to poor quality has become neccesitated.
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In an effort to promote quality air monitoring in urban areasabd rural areas,the Federal Government had also in 2023 established an air quality monitor in port Harcourt rivers state.
