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The Federal Government of Nigeria has concluded plans to review the map of Nigeria, which was produced by the Canadian Government in 1970.

This will enable the country to get a new map which will help deal with various negative challenges and efforts of the government towards achieving a more effective security network.

The Acting Surveyor-General of the Federation (SGoF), Abduganiyu Adebomehin, while defending the 2020 budget appropriation before the House Committee on Works and Housing at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja. revealed that the current Nigeria map was produced 41 years ago, and there is a need for it to be updated to support the environment, physical infrastructure, and socio-economic system and guarantee sustainable development.

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According to him, it will be difficult for the country to make effective decisions, plan well and successfully implement or execute its people-oriented and developmental projects without current topographical sheets that could provide timely and reliable data.

On poor funding, he regretted this has hindered the production of current topo-sheets, provide a good number of Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) across the country as well as maximize the high-performance data center.

Ag. SGoF further explained that drones are needed to fly around for a certain period of time to be able to generate data for a complete topo-sheet, assuring, if properly funded the project could provide the necessary support to enhance the country’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).

The Chairman, House Committee on Works and Housing Abubakar Abubakar, however, acknowledged the relevance of OSGoF and requested its leadership to provide the committee with critical documents for more information for better appropriation.

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