By Mashe Umaru Gwamna
The Minister of state for environment, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako has pledged to collaborate with Media on Environmental awareness.
The Minister made this known during a courtesy visit by the Managing Director of Nature News, Mr. Rasheed Yusuf in his office Abuja.
Salako disclosed that whatever the ministry is doing would not have optimal impact without Media publicity.
He further stated that the ministry’s policies and programmes required a lot of sensitisation and Media campaign in order to educate the general public on environmental sustainability and protection.
The Minister disclosed that the Federal Government through the ministry’s 18 key deliverable areas planned to plant six million (6m trees) this year.
He therefore urged the general public to plant at least one (1) tree per person to augment government efforts in greening the environment, emphasizing that animals and plants are very important in the ecosystem.
Salako further revealed that the ministry would this year scale up its Media publicity activities and urged nature news newspaper to cue in and be part of the campaign, educating and Sensitization of the public on Environment.
“Our doors are always open to the Media” he said.
Earlier,the Managing Director, Nature News, Mr. Rasheed Yusuf, congratulated the minister on his appointment and solicited for more areas of collaboration between the ministry and his organisation.
Yusuf stated that the Nature News as a media organisation has been rated as 1st in Africa and 13th globally in terms of the coverage of nature issues.
He disclosed to the minister that the Annual General Meeting (AGM), of the Nature News is scheduled to hold on Tuesday,27th February,2024 at Yar’dua Centre Abuja and requested the presence of the Hon. Minister at the event.
It would be recalled that Nature News as a Media outfit started it’s operation on 1st October,2020 covering environment, Agriculture, Water, Mining, petroleum sectors among others.
