NIMET To Present 2020 Seasonal Rainfall Prediction Today

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET, will present the Seasonal Rainfall Prediction, SRP for 2020 today, the Director-General, Professor Sani Abubakar Mashi has announced. The NIMET boss stated this in Abuja at a media parley with journalists also said the agency has established a new institute in Katsina for training in meteorology at the Ordinary National Diploma, OND and Higher National Diploma, HND, levels, with the first batch of students expected to resume in September this year. According to him, the 2020 rainfall prediction “will highlight vital information that may affect socio-economic activities in the air, land and water transportation, agriculture, water resources, disaster management and mitigation, tourism, health, and sports,” among others.