The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has budgeted N644.2 million on the cleaning, fumigation, purchase of computers and stationery for its offices across the country.
This was contained in the 2024 budget recently approved by the National Assembly.
The budget, which was obtained by our correspondent, indicated that NiMet would spend N370 million on cleaning and fumigation services across its offices, reports Daily Independent.
NiMet has only 33 office branches in Nigeria: Umuahia, Yola, Uyo, Awka, Bauchi City, Makurdi, Maiduguri, Calabar, Asaba, Abakaliki, Ado-Ekiti, Gombe City, Dutse, Kaduna City and Kano City.
Others are Ikeja, Minna, Katsina City, Birnin Kebbi, Lokoja, Ilorin, Benin City, Minna, Lafia, Abeokuta, Akure, Osogbo, Ibadan, Jos, Port Harcourt, Sokoto City, Jalingo, Potiskum and Gusau.
The budget also indicated that the agency intends to purchase computers valued at N130 million within the period.
The breakdown of the budget further showed that the agency would spend another N154,217,650 on office stationeries/computer consumables.
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Besides, NiMet planned to spend N30 million on the printing of non-security documents; N7 million on printing of security documents, while another N182,268,151 would be spent on maintenance services.
Also, the budget showed that it would spend N30 million on maintenance of office buildings, N34,422,63 on maintenance of IT equipment; N17,180,825 on maintenance of plants/ generators and additional N30,306,438 on other maintenance services.
The budget also showed that NiMet would expend N175,300,000 on local and international training within the year, N860,435,299 on ‘other services,’ while another N465,435,299 would be spent on security charges in 2024, according to the budget.
The weather forecasting agency also budgeted N150,000,000 on purchase of security equipment, N1.8 billion on purchase of air navigational equipment, N660,000,000 on construction and another N660,000,000 on provision of fixed assets, N650 million on provision of office buildings and N340,000,000 on rehabilitation/repairs.
Besides, NiMet planned another N340,000,000 for rehabilitation/repairs of fixed assets, N160,000,000 on rehabilitation/repairs of air navigational equipment, and another N880,000,000 on capital projects.
Another N880,000,000 was planned for non-tangible assets, N355,000,000 for computer software acquisition, N1.1 billion for miscellaneous, N100,000,000 for maintenance and retrofitting of national weather forecasting and climate research centre and N30 million on design and installation of IT solution for automation of office operation, which it said was “ongoing.”
Besides, the organisation budgeted N100,000,000 for the integration of network stations into the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) and another N120,000,000 for the annual rainfall prediction and climate review for Nigeria in six zones of the country. NiMet said this was “ongoing” in the budget under review, while another N120 million would be spent on transmission to NiMet climate data centre, saying that this is “new.”
NiMet is also to spend N150,000,000 on funding of WMO regional office activities for West Africa regional, Abuja, N200,000,000 on the calibration laboratory at Abuja, saying it was “ongoing.”
