North East Facing Extreme Climate Change- NEDC Boss

The North eastern part of Nigeria is presently facing severe levels of climate change occasioned by ecological imbalance which is having disastrous consequences.

This is the view of the Managing Director of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC), Mohammed Alkali when he spoke in Maiduguri, Borno State capital on Thursday.

He added that the region has been grappling with an unprecedented number of “climate induced migrations” occasioned by the multifaceted effects of climate change.

The NEDC boss listed the effects to include desertification, drought, flood and shrinkage of the Lake Chad basin – which put the region in a dire strait.

“We are seeing the effects of climate change that has exacerbated different conflicts in the North-East from the insurgency to communal conflicts over the years.

“The drying up of the Lake Chad, the southward expansion of the Sahara Desert, floods being experienced across many states, menace of the herdsmen/farmer clashes necessitated by the diminishing availability of forests and grazing lands, are all obvious problems associated with climate change in the region,” he said.