BAUCHI GOVERNOR INAUGURATES FIRST BAUCHI ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE LABORATORY

:Directs BASEPA to conduct environmental scan Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Bauchi state on Monday commissioned first environmental science laboratory in the state designed for a test of a minimum of 15 parameters of each of the core environmental components. Commissioning the project at BASEPA headquarters in Bauchi, the governor said the modern environmental science facility will serve as a reference centre for testing the quality of core environmental components which include water, soil and plants. According to him, the laboratory will also serve as a one-stop-solution centre for analysing and safe custody of samples gathered from the environmental scan. To this end, Governor Bala Mohammed directed BASEPA to conduct environmental scan for the state to highlight both existing and anticipated environmental problems across the 20 Local Government Areas of the state. He said the move is to identify vulnerable groups, measure the magnitude of the problems, proffer solu...