IBBUL lecturer urges establishment of national remote sensing centre to foster accountability

From Yakubu Mustapha
Minna

A professor of Remote Sensing from Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai (IBBUL), Professor Solomon Ndace Jiya has called for the establishment of a national remote sensing centre and mandate satellite monitoring for all major development projects to hold developers accountable in the country.
The Inaugural lecturer made the recommendation during the 30th Inaugural lecture of the university titled: ‘Eyes in the Sky: Recording Earth’s Secrets and Advancing Environmental Strewardship Through Remote Sensing’ held at the main campus in Lapai.
He urged policymakers, researchers, educators, and citizens to advance environmental strewardship through remote sensing in the country and beyond on the need to centralized institutions that coordinate satellite data, acquisition, processing, and distribution across government, universities, and the private sector.
Professor Solomon Jiya advocated for the integration of remote sensing in to agriculture and build contextualized university curriculum and create community- based geospatial literacy and prioritize open data access to enhance global data sharing initiatives.
The University don emphasized on strengthening international partnership and apply goespatial intelligence to conflict prevention as well as to commit to long-term monitoring with youth and gender inclusion to ensure environmental strewardship continuity in Nigeria for tracking land cover change, urban expansion, vegetation health, water availability, and climate trends.