NESREA invests N1.3bn in research, development initiatives

With fifteen “New” projects for development in the 2025 fiscal year, the National Environmental Standards Response and Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has begun a new phase of public participation in promoting environmentally friendly habits across the country.

The agency which has proposed the sum of N1,333,424,599 for its research and development in the 2025 fiscal year, is set to execute the Renewed Hope Agenda in promoting environmentally friendly habits among environmentally impacting companies and businesses.

Notable investment by the agency for this task in carrying out its mandate for clean air, water, sound, and physical environmental enforcement, the agency has planned the “development and deployment of an automated performance management system” for N50,000,000.

It has planned to invest N95,000,000, to recruit Nigerians in the fight for a cleaner environment under its “new” project captured as “ERGP30228817” for “Public Participation in Environmental Governance and Management.”

This investment has been closely followed with another proposal for the sum of “N48,000,000” for the “ERGP 30228886 targeted at development and implementation of environmental public awareness campaign and advocacy.

The agency has decided to continue its investment in the procurement of on-site portable mobile and stationary environmental testing and control equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPEs).

This “ongoing” development project would cost N83,800,00 as it is contained in the budget proposal before the national assembly bearing ERGP20105737.

The project had an allocation of N10,000,000 in 2023 with ERGP20105730. For the extant fiscal year of 2024, the expenditure has been N48,682,422 coded with the ERGP30203620.

To continue its research whenever it receives samples on referral cases for undisputable enforcement activities at its twin referral laboratories, the agency in “ERGP19176606 procurement of laboratory equipment for national reference laboratories in Port Harcourt and Kano” states has a proposal of N53,000,000.

In defence of her operations and enforcement of compliance with the codes of NESREA, the agency has made arrangements to invest N431,000,000 for the procurement of two sets of vehicles.

Under “ERPG19229157” for the “procurement of operational vehicles” the project would cost “N262,000,000” the estimate said.

For its “procurement of compliance monitoring and enforcement vehicles” the estimated sum would cost N169,000,000 according to the 2025 budget proposal.

Both projects are “new,” another new project to promote a cleaner environment to control poor human waste disposal and its attendant smell and health implications is the ERGP30228976.

The exciting project named “the implementation of Nigeria Open Defecation Free Initiative” would have an investment of N55,000,000.

This would be compliment to the campaign effort by the federal government on open defecation.

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