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The Centre serves
the dual purpose of a National Institution and the Basel
Convention Regional Coordinating Centre for Africa for
Training and Transfer of Technology.
It was established
on Tuesday, 20th September, 1994 by the
decision of the Federal Government of Nigeria as Federal
Ministry of Environment, FMENV, (formerly Federal
Environmental Protection Agency, FEPA) - University of Ibadan
Linkage Centre for Cleaner Production Technology and Hazardous
Waste Management.
The Centre is a product of the
FMENV
(formerly FEPA) strategy of involving the tertiary
institutions in some of their areas of excellence on manpower
development and technology innovation in tackling the nation’s
multidimensional environmental problems. This strategy is
informed by the Agency’s gigantic responsibility of
implementing UNCED (the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development) Agenda 21 which requires capacity
development for the 21st Century and beyond to
enable all tiers of Governments; industry and the public at
large access technology and acquire the capacity to manage the
environment in a sustainable way.
The University of Ibadan,
specifically, Department of Chemistry, Federal Radiation
Protection Service, Department of Physics both in the Faculty
of Science and the College of Medicine (Department of Medicine
Microbiology, Preventive and Social Medicine) played major
roles in the scientific investigations of the 4000 tons of
toxic wastes from Italy illegally dumped in Koko, Bendel State
(now Delta State) in 1988.
The Conference of Parties
(COP2) of the Basel Convention approved Nigeria's request to
host the Basel Convention Regional Coordinating Centre for
Africa (BCRCA). The Nigerian Government gave this mandate as a
complementary responsibility to the Linkage Centre already
established at the University of Ibadan.
The host institution,
University of Ibadan, is world acclaimed and is Nigeria’s
premier university. It was established in 1948.
The linkage center is sited in
the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, with access to
the manpower, pollution and hazardous wastes laboratories in
the Department of Chemistry, as well as teaching and research
facilities in the faculties of Technology, Social Science,
Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Education, ;aw and the
College of Medicine respectively.
It is also accessible to the
institutional support facilities of the Federal Ministry of
Environment namely; National Reference Laboratory in
Lagos with facilities for Wet Analysis, Instrumentation,
Microbiology and Toxicology; the Environmental Enforcement
Training Center; and the Personnel pool of experts in
the practical aspects of hazardous waste management
including chemical tracking and transboundary compliance
of the country .The facilities of International Institute of
Tropical Agriculture, IITA ,which is about 10 km away ,
is also available to the institute. Read
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