Nigeria Floods: UNICAL Prof Participates in UN High Level Meeting

Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui has participated in the United Nations Climate Change High Level Capacity-building Meeting on Monday, October 17 in the German City of Bonn. This comes as Nigeria is facing unprecedented floods which has left 1.4 million people displaced and claimed over 500 lives.

The OECD and the UNFCCC Paris Committee on Capacity-building’s Network, are convening a series of meetings on capacity development and climate change, a key theme to ensure implementation of the Paris Agreement. During the meeting on “Partnerships for Capacity Development and Climate Change”, she called on more partnerships to support efforts to mitigate climate change and asked for participating nations to support the Nigerian Government’s recovery efforts.

Earlier, the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, expressed his sadness over the loss of lives and property due to the floods. Professor Aniebiet is expected to play an active role at the Conference of Parties (COP) 27 in Egypt as she played an instrumental role during the Climate Change COP 26 held last year in Glasgow, she was appointed by the United Kingdom Government as a Member of the COP 26-UK Universities Climate Network.

Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is the Most Read Researcher in Nigeria, a 2022 Nobel Citation Laureates Prize Nominee and the University Librarian of the University of Calabar. In August, she was named as the possible Minister for Education of the Nigerian Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi whom is currently leading the Bloomberg National Vote Poll with over 70 points.