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  • Anosike’s Transformative Leadership and NiMet’s current global applause

    Anosike’s Transformative Leadership and NiMet’s current global applause

    • By Uchendu Ugbala Nnadi

    Last week, Nigeria GovTech Public Service Awards 2025, recongised NiMet as the “Best Federal MDA in Open Data Excellence.”

    In addition, the Director General/CEO of NiMet, Prof. Charles Anosike, was honoured with the Distinguished GovTech Trailblazer’s Award.

    A combination of the two awards, serve as lasting testimonies that NiMet and its leadership are at the front seat, among agencies driving Nigeria’s digital agenda.

    They also serve as very loud testimony and acknowledgement of the agency’s outstanding performance in data transparency and digital transformation.

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    Within the same period, Anosike was also named as one of the Top 100 Environmental and Sustainability Professionals during awards organized by Environment Africa Magazine.

    According to the organisers, Anosike earned the recognition, for his forward-thinking work in climate resilience, particularly his efforts to ensure that weather and climate information directly supports vulnerable communities, critical sectors, and long-term national planning.

    The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has risen from relative obscurity to become one of best performing federal government agencies in Nigeria.

    The agency is now a household name in the country while at the same time, receiving accolades and laurels from several international publics and stakeholders, especially organizations that are concerned with weather and climate related matters.

    These achievements are coming, in addition to unprecedented welfare initiative of the current management for staff of the agency, who hitherto, were denied training opportunities and other benefits.

    Since he assumed office less than two years ago, more than 1,700 staff have benefitted from different categories of trainings to equip them with requisite skills and knowledge to operate a modern institution that is knowledge-based and critical to the overall wellbeing of the nation.

    Before Professor Charles Anosike was appointed as the Director General/CEO, of NiMet in December 2023, the agency’s performance was rated low, caused mainly by factors like lack of leadership drive, slow and ineffective migration to modern technologies and a demoralized workforce that were denied series of entitlements and claims.

  • NiMet DG Anosike tours northwest zonal office facilities

    NiMet DG Anosike tours northwest zonal office facilities

    In continuation of his nationwide tour of facilities of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), to ascertain firsthand the state of equipment and facilities and interact with agency staff, the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Prof. Charles Anosike, on Tuesday, 4th March 2025, began a tour of the Northwest zonal headquarters. 

    On arrival at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Zonal Headquarters of the agency, Prof. Anosike and his team were met by the Meteorological Manager, Adewara Hassan, Mr Banky Jonathan, the State Meteorological Inspector (SMI), and other members of staff. 

    Prof. Anosike afterward undertook a tour of NiMet’s critical assets needed to keep maintaining aviation safety, including the METEO station located at the airport’s tarmac area, the pilot briefing rooms at both the domestic and international wings of the airport and other facilities. 

    During an interactive session with the staff, Prof. Anosike gave them assurances of the continued support of the Honourable Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo. SAN, and His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. 

    “I am impressed with what we have seen during our tour. The Northwest zonal office of NiMet is well organized, even though many of our instruments as observed are not working due to lack of transparency in documentation, vandalization and in some cases sabotage. I thank our scientists, observers, forecasters, engineers, and all the staff working in the region for their dedication and commitment despite noted challenges”.

    Continuing, Professor Anosike charged the staff to ensure that equipment and other facilities under their care are optimally protected and maintained. 

    “Meteorology is the foundation of aviation safety protocols. Aviation can never be safe if meteorology services are not being done optimally. Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, has a special status as a flight information region. 

    “We have to ensure that the investments government is making in replacing obsolete and damaged equipment are protected. We have to hold our contractors more accountable and ensure that the equipment they are supplying and installing meets the standards and specifications and that the contractors carry out the contracted training of our staff on the use of such equipment. The era of installing equipment without training and then the contractor disappearing is over. We need our staff in the regions to enforce this”. 

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    Concluding, Prof. Anosike assured the staff that management is working hard to improve staff welfare and that certain approvals in that regard have already been secured from the federal government. 

    Prof. Anosike’s entourage included Engr. Abdulkareem Hamid Olayinka, Director of Engineering and Technical Services, Prof. Vincent Weli, Director of Weather Forecasting Services and Cyprian Okpalaku, the Special Adviser to the DG/CEO of NiMet on Information Communications Technology (ICT), and Dr. Haruna Zakari, Technical Assistant to the DG/CEO of NiMet.

    Photo Story: Prof. Charles Anosike (Middle), Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), surrounded by some officials of the agency during the inspection of facilities of the agency at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Zonal Headquarters Kano of the agency in Kano on Wednesday, 5th March 2025.

  • NiMet’s partnership with universities will benefit farmers, says Anosike

    NiMet’s partnership with universities will benefit farmers, says Anosike

    The director general of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Prof. Charles Anosike, has said that the agency’s partnerships with universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria would benefit farmers and people living in agrarian communities.

    Prof. Anosike said this while signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between NiMet and Taraba State University on Thursday.

    He said: “NiMet’s network of university partners is increasing. This adds to the weather and climate data available to us in addition to the data being generated by our agency-owned weather stations. These various data enrich the accuracy of our weather forecasts in fulfillment of our mandate. These ultimately benefit the local farmers and other users.”

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    Prof. Anosike added that the agency would continue to monitor the performances of the MoUs signed with universities and other higher institutions to ensure that all the parties are fulfilling their obligations.

    The Vice Chancellor of Taraba State University, Prof. Sunday Paul Bako, said the partnership with NiMet would enable the institution to meet the needs of the immediate university community and the larger community, which is agrarian.

    He said: “We have departments of Geography, Agriculture, and others, including Ecotourism, at the Taraba State University that would benefit from the partnership and intervention. Our agricultural faculty runs extension programs so with the data generated from the weather station, we can raise awareness of sustainable farming and climate-smart practices.

    This MoU is for four years and is renewable. The aim of the collaboration is the promotion of activities relating to meteorology and climate change in Nigeria.

    The partnership is also expected to enhance the capacity of the parties to provide relevant tools that will boost the delivery of products and services to various sectors related to meteorology and climate change in Nigeria.