{"id":270537,"date":"2020-10-16T14:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=270537"},"modified":"2020-10-16T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:23:44","slug":"fg-set-to-establish-federal-college-of-forestry-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=270537","title":{"rendered":"FG set to establish Federal College of Forestry in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe Federal Government on Friday said it has approved a temporary site for the establishment of a Federal College of Forestry in Jere Local Government Area of Borno state.
\nThe Minister of Environment, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, said this after a meeting with Governor Babagana Zulum, at the Government House in Maiduguri.
\nAbubakar said that details on the take-off of the institutions would be made known through the committee set up by the ministry to be chaired by Prof. Adeshola Adepoju, Director General, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN).
\nAbubakar also said that the ministry had signed an agreement with UNESCO to implement a project known as \u201cBiosphere and Heritage of Lake Chad\u201d aimed toward safeguarding the environment.
\nHe said that the project would also focus on accompanying the Member States in the preparation of a dossier for the creation of a transboundary biosphere reserve in the basin and a nomination of the lake as a World Heritage Site.
\nThe minister said that the ministry has initiated relevant projects and programmes toward supporting the Borno in fighting desertification and climate action, through its Great Green Wall program and the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN).
\nAbubakar said that it had produced a total of about 1.3 million varieties of seedlings, while 60 kilometres shelters belt were planted alongside the establishment of 140 hectares of wood long.
\nHe urged the Borno government to gazette a land that would be developed to be considered as a forest reserve in the future for the development of the state and the environment.
\nHe said that he was in the state for a working visit and to also interface with Governor Zulum on his areas of interest for the implementation of various projects under the ministry.
\nResponding, Gov Zulum said the state government would do everything possible to support the Federal Government in its plan to establish the college in the state.
\n\u201cI am pleased to notify the people of Borno that the Federal Government in its magnanimity has approved the establishment of the Federal College Forestry at Khadamari village in Jere.
\n\u201cAs you are aware of the arid nature of the state, I believe with the established of the college, the people would benefit a lot as it will play a vital role in the fight against desertification and climate action,\u201d Zulum said.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Federal Government on Friday said it has approved a temporary site for the establishment of a Federal College of Forestry in Jere Local Government Area of Borno state. The Minister of Environment, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, said this after a meeting with Governor Babagana Zulum, at the Government House in Maiduguri. Abubakar said that details […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3],"tags":[40,15831,4797],"class_list":["post-270537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-borno","tag-college-of-forestry","tag-fg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}