The governor said there is free money in the global credit market but that the state must aggregate all its forests to tap into that income stream, adding that the state has no reason to be poor.
Countries now plant trees and embark on other carbon reduction measures to sell their carbon offsets at the carbon markets. “Niger State has the largest congregation of shea trees in the world It is an endowment by God. These things nobody knows about are there but our women are on the farms, cutting them down to make firewood. We, however, need them to understand that we must protect our forest from deforestation and also promote afforestation,” he said.