Stakeholders within the environmental and local weather sectors have known as for stronger partnerships, elevated public consciousness and sustained motion to deal with local weather change, plastic air pollution and marine waste in Nigeria.
The name was made on the second version of the African Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Film Festival (ASFF 2026), organised by Chanja Datti Limited in Abuja to advertise sustainable improvement by movies, documentaries and inventive storytelling.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Climate Technology and Operations, Olamide Fagbuji, urged authorities establishments, companies, improvement companions and communities to accentuate collaboration in addressing environmental challenges.
Fagbuji confused the necessity to translate local weather advocacy into sensible interventions, noting that environmental degradation, flooding, rising temperatures and drought pose important threats to communities and livelihoods.
He urged Nigerians to develop into extra aware of their environmental tasks and embrace sustainable practices that might defend the setting for current and future generations.
The pageant’s convener and Founder of Chanja Datti Limited, Ms. Olufunto Borofice, stated the initiative was designed to harness the facility of visible storytelling to advance the Sustainable Development Goals, have a good time African tradition and encourage younger individuals to champion sustainable improvement.
She disclosed that movie entries elevated by virtually 20 per cent, whereas youth registrations practically doubled in contrast with the earlier version, which attracted over 700 bodily attendees and reached greater than 47,000 individuals digitally.
Borofice described movies as highly effective instruments for environmental advocacy, able to highlighting the plight of affected communities, influencing coverage choices and galvanizing sensible options. She known as for improved waste disposal practices and higher dedication to plastic recycling.
Representing the Federal Ministry of Environment, Mrs. Zainab Kabiru Yusuf, Assistant Chief Scientific Officer, Pollution Control and Environmental Health Department, emphasised the significance of collective motion in tackling marine air pollution. She additionally recommended Chanja Datti Limited for its contributions to environmental sustainability and waste administration.
Similarly, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Climate Innovation Centre (NCIC), Bankole Oloruntoba, highlighted the PROTEGO Project, an initiative involving the centre, WASTE Africa, Adelphi and the German authorities to stop waste from getting into the oceans.
He stated the undertaking, which includes the Federal Government and the Lagos and Cross River State Governments, promotes sustainable waste administration and seeks to scale back marine air pollution.
Oloruntoba stated neighborhood engagement in Ajegunle had recorded encouraging progress, with residents more and more recognising the connection between indiscriminate waste disposal and ocean air pollution. He added that conventional leaders and younger individuals had embraced the initiative, whereas pilot interventions had been underway to ship measurable waste-reduction outcomes inside a yr.
He additionally praised Chanja Datti Limited for remodeling waste into helpful merchandise, describing such efforts as important to creating Nigeria’s round economic system.
The Sustainability Manager of Nestlé Nigeria, Chinwe Obi, described the pageant as an necessary platform for selling environmental duty, noting that movies present an efficient technique of speaking complicated environmental challenges and inspiring behavioural change.
Obi reaffirmed Nestlé Nigeria’s assist for the pageant, stressing that artistic storytelling may attain wider audiences and encourage accountable waste administration and the safety of water our bodies.
The Director-General of the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) was represented by Engr. Chukwudi Nwabuisiaku, Deputy Director, Inspection and Enforcement Department, whereas the Project Director of Adelphi, Germany, Mr. Paolo Facco, additionally participated.
The 2026 pageant, themed “Amplifying Voices for a Sustainable Future,” seeks to increase environmental advocacy throughout Africa and mobilise governments, companies and people in the direction of attaining the SDGs by recycling, correct waste disposal and sustained motion in opposition to marine air pollution.
PROTEGO is the headline sponsor of ASFF 2026, whereas WASTE Africa and NCIC are implementing companions for the PROTEGO Project. Nestlé Nigeria is a strategic associate, with the pageant powered by Chanja Datti Limited.
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