The Ministry of the Environment was recently carved out of the former Ministry of the Environment and Physical Planning by the Administration of His Excellency, Aiswaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in January, 2003.
The Ministry is charged with the responsibility of providing decent, orderly and reasonable conducive environment for habitable society, as contained in the assignments of Ministerial responsibilities.
To date, the Ministry has displayed total commitment to all its statutory responsibility and inspite of the myriads of environmental problems and rampant cases of illegal developments, the Ministry is never intimidated and thus remains committed to its primary objective of providing a clean, and healthy environment conducive for a suitable social and economic development.
In line with the State Government 10-point development Agenda, with the Environment as numero-uno as enunciated at the Akodo retreat the need to restructure the Ministry for efficiency and effectiveness in order to meet the aspirations and yearnings of Government became apparent. Hence the existing six departments were increased to include three additional departments.
Similarly, the former World Bank Assisted Projects Department was renamed Multi-Lateral Projects department for wider coverage. The three new departments were extablished to achieve the following objectives;
The Monitoring Enforcement and Compliance Department was set up to effectively tackle the menace of environmental nuisance in the State. In the main,l the department is saddled with monitoring, surveillance and assessment of the environment. It is also the fulcrum on which the Campaign Against Indiscipline (KAI) was conceived.
To serve as a regulatory body for the indiscriminate display of banners and bill boards which hitherto litter our major roads and highways, the Signage and Outdoor Advertisement Department was conceived.
As its name connotes, the Public Affairs and Research Department is mainly saddled with the issue of public enlightenment campaign drive.
It has been realized that information dissemination and public enlightenment campaigns are the main ingredient requested to tackle the war against indiscriminate dumping of refuse, amongst others.
The department also serves as the reservoir of information on all aspects of the Environment.
Finance and Administration Accounts Sewage and Water Resources Drainage Environmental Services Multilateral projects Monitoring, Enforcement and Compliance Signage and Outdoor Advertising Public Affairs and Research|
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