By Nkechi Eze
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has launched its Strategic Plan for 2026–2030, setting out a comprehensive roadmap aimed at strengthening institutional performance, enhancing service delivery, and improving climate resilience across the country.
Speaking at the unveiling in Abuja, the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of NiMet and Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the World Meteorological Organization, Professor Charles Anosike, described the plan as a major milestone in the agency’s evolution.
He noted that the strategic document reflects NiMet’s long-standing responsibility of safeguarding lives and property, a role the agency has played for over 140 years. According to him, the plan is designed as a performance management roadmap to align NiMet’s weather and climate services with Nigeria’s broader national development goals.
Anosike explained that the agency is positioning itself to become the first public institution in Nigeria’s aviation sector to fully institutionalise the Balanced Scorecard system. He said the plan is anchored on five key pillars, including employee growth and development, strategic partnerships, technology and innovation, quality service delivery, and revenue diversification.
The launch also underscored NiMet’s alignment with the Federal Government’s results-driven governance framework coordinated by the Central Results Delivery Coordination Unit. The unit, established at the start of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, is responsible for strengthening performance monitoring across Ministries, Departments and Agencies through mechanisms such as the Presidential Performance Bond and results-based budgeting.
In his remarks, the Managing Consultant and CEO of Balanced Scorecard West Africa, Kayode Sufianu, commended NiMet for adopting the Balanced Scorecard as its strategic management framework. He attributed the successful development of the plan to the leadership of the Director-General, as well as the commitment of the agency’s senior management and its Balanced Scorecard Champions Team.
Sufianu explained that the framework enables organisations to translate strategic objectives into measurable outcomes across key areas, including stakeholder engagement, financial stewardship, internal processes, and organisational capacity.
As part of the rollout, the NiMet boss also unveiled the agency’s refreshed core values captured in the acronym I-PACE—Integrity, Professionalism, Accountability, Commitment and Excellence—which he said would guide the effective implementation of the strategic plan over the next five years.
