Nigeria Records Progress with EU On Green Industrial Investments 

Nigeria is recording progress in the pursuit of strengthened EU-Nigeria cooperation on local capacity building, green industrial investment as well as extensive feasibility study on the nation’s wind corridors and other renewal energy sources.

Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action SPEC, Ajuri Ngelale made this known on Thursday at the State House, Abuja after he met with the European Union’s Head of Cooperation in Nigeria, Mr Massimo DeLuca and his team.

According to Ngelale, “We made progress in advancing Nigeria’s pursuit of deepened EU-Nigeria cooperation in the promotion of green industrial investment, local capacity building, and extensive feasibility study on Nigeria’s wind corridors and other important renewable energy sources”.

The Envoy in another meeting, assessed opportunities in Nigeria’s value chain localisation drive and the industrial nexus between the healthcare industry and renewable energy technologies.

Ngelale disclosed that he jointly assessed with a decorated Belgian microbiologist Mrs Heidi Larson and Professor Peter Piot, who discovered the Ebola Virus in 1976.

“I welcomed Mrs. Heidi Larson and Sir (Prof) Peter Piot, a decorated Belgian microbiologist who helped discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and has mentored many public administrators around the world. We assessed opportunities in Nigeria’s value chain localization drive and the industrial nexus between the healthcare industry and renewable energy technologies.

Speaking on Nigeria’s climate action, SPEC also addressed a network of people-centred Non-governmental organisations, on the green industrial activities of the country.

According to Ngelale, “I shed light on Nigeria’s climate action and green industrial activities with a strategic network of people-centered NGOs at the launch of Care Nigeria’s Country Strategy, 2024-2030″.

Dominica Nwabufo