Nigeria: "Geographical mapping key to disaster management"

At the 47th Annual General Meeting of the Institution of Surveyors in Ilorin, Nigeria, Nigeria’s Vice President, Muhammad Namadi Sambo said the Nigerian federal government would do everything possible to map its geographical landscape to address disaster management in the country.

EARSCJuly 16, 2012

For this purpose, the vice president said, the office of the Surveyor-General of the Federation has been positioned for the task. Sambo called on state governments to also take up the challenge. “This essentially is what maps and its attribute products enable us to do.
The government of Nigeria will do everything possible to ensure that our geographical space is properly and comprehensively mapped”.