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Nigerian agencies acquire satellite technology skills for flood monitoring and forecasting

Kehinde Sallah
Kehinde Sallah February 9, 2021
Updated 2021/02/09 at 9:01 PM
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L-R Representative of DG/CEO NiMet, Alao Kamorudeen Adesina (Asst. General Manager, Hydrometeorology) Lead of the CSSTE Consortium and Executive Director of the African Regional Centre for Space Science & Technology Education – English (ARCSSTE-E), Dr. Ganiy Agbaje, Representative of NIHSA DG, Mrs Aishatu Tani Ibrahim (Director, Engineering Hydrology) Representative of DG, NEMA, Abdullahi Adamu (Deputy Director, Research and Forecasting)
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CSSTE advises the government on stronger laws to tackle indiscriminate refuse dumping

In order to equip technical operational staffs with skills and requisite tools to enable them to identify flood hotspot areas in order to make a quick flood damage assessment with the introduction of satellite technology, Nigeria’s disaster management organizations and hydrometeorological organizations gathered in Abuja on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, for a 3-day Online Regional Training Workshop on Flood Monitoring and Forecasting Modeling.

The training, organized by the Centre for Space Science & Technology Education (CSSTE) is part of the Multi-Scale Flood Monitoring and Assessment Services for West Africa (MiFMASS) Project under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa (GMES & Africa) Support Programme which seeks to help Nigeria and other West African nations to adopt a new system of utilizing satellite technology in better predicting environmental patterns to help mitigate flood.

Participants are mainly technical operational staff from the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET), Nigerian Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) and the Federal Ministry of Environment.

The training, which holds simultaneously across four other West African countries, aims to equip participants with skills and requisite tools to enable them to identify flood-hotspot areas in order to make a quick flood damage assessment, identify flood monitoring and forecast model, as well as hydrological and hydraulic modeling.

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According to the Lead of the CSSTE Consortium, Dr. Ganiy Agbaje, the training is in alignment with one of the major pillars of the GMES & Africa support programme, which is capacity building, and this has led the CSSTE consortium to identify strategic training needs of its collaborating stakeholders on the MIFMASS project with the aim to train and empower them to sustain the product and services outcomes after the lifetime of the programme.

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In sustaining the successes of the project, he advised governments to further embrace technology for creative solutions and consider stronger laws to control the indiscriminate dumping of refuse which is a major cause of flooding in Africa.

“Human beings are somehow meant to be unruly. So, the society needs to be guided by law, else I can go to your house and just mess it up. If there are no laws to say ‘you cannot dump refuse here’ then everywhere will be messy. We need to abide by the regulations and rules.”

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“Also, it has been said that the whole of Netherlands is on a flood lane but they use engineering and other means to ensure that they stay afloat most of the time. We have millions of dollars lost every year to flooding in Africa, forcing ECOWAS to make a policy on disaster risk reduction but more has to be done to ensure that the impact is lower in Nigeria and other countries,” he said.

Dr Agbaje, who also doubles as the Executive Director of the African Regional Centre for Space Science & Technology Education – English (ARCSSTE-E) in Ile-Ife, added that GMES & Africa is a joint initiative of the African Union and the European Union to harness the benefits of earth observation (Satellite) data for inherent environmental challenges in Africa and the MiFMASS project is one of the many ongoing research and development projects under the programme.

He promised that two more trainings will be held as the consortium prepares for the conclusion of the project and the handover of its products and services to relevant agencies. “This is the third in the series of our trainings and we have two more to go,” he said.

The European Union has provided free access to its satellite data (Copernicus) for the implementation of GMES & Africa projects in the five geographical regions of Africa.

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GMES & Africa Programme Coordinator at the African Union Commission, Dr. Tidiane Ouattara, who joined via video conferencing, expressed joy that the activities of the CSSTE consortium was able to continue despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

TAGGED: africa, CSSTE, Flood, Nigeria, Nimet, Science, Technology
Kehinde Sallah February 9, 2021
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