Niger govt to release budgeted funds for disaster response

The Niger State Government has assured that it volition statesman the merchandise of budgeted funds to fortify preparedness and effect to disasters, arsenic portion of efforts to trim the interaction of aboriginal shocks crossed the state.

This follows caller warnings by the Federal Government that 33 states, including Niger, whitethorn acquisition flooding this year.

The Commissioner for Planning Commission, Mustapha Ndajiwo, disclosed this astatine a three-day stakeholders’ consultative gathering connected the Niger State Shock Response Framework, organised successful collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, successful Minna.

He said provisions had already been made successful the 2026 fund for catastrophe response, counterpart funding, and related interventions, stressing that funds would beryllium deployed erstwhile necessary.

Ndajiwo noted that Niger State remains highly susceptible to disasters, adding that the authorities is reviewing existing strategies to amended effect and physique a much coordinated system.

He further explained that portion policies beryllium successful sectors specified arsenic agriculture, nutrient security, and nutrition, implementation has often been fragmented, making it indispensable to make a unified Shock Response Framework that integrates planning, exigency management, and societal services.

Speaking successful an interview, the Commissioner for Humanitarian and Disaster Management, Mohammed Inga Ibrahim, said the ministry...