The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security has to conduct research on the validity of the marriage. This period allows sufficient time for any necessary background checks and verifications to take place, ensuring the integrity of the marriage process

Research is very important.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

Statistics and information has become the lifeline in policy-making the world over. We must be at par with our neighboring countries, if not the world, to be equipped with vital and current information on world trade, events and trends.

while mitigation may be very difficult and expensive, especially for individuals and even governments, concerted policy-based efforts on adaptation are on-going.

Honourable members, over the past two decades, a number of successful initiatives were put in place to facilitate the use of the available science for policy and action. Together with the Presidential Climate Change Commission, we will finalise the development of a medium-term climate change research and development roadmap.

Economists, as parts of their contributions, are developing ways to measure the multi-trillion-dollar worth of many so-called ecosystems services, the ministry was reviewing and updating its extant laws for the enforcement and achievement of best environment practices including green economic policies.

I was a local government official before I became minister of transportation and communications, and I know how people feel. The most important thing about government policy is that it must be down-to-earth. The ministry should not only focus on building infrastructure, but it should also care about serving the public. Government officials should look at policies from the public's perspective and have complementary measures in place before they implement the policies.

researchers and policymakers can, among other things, "interpret the data together, make sure the interpretation is appropriate, and tease out the actions they're going to take."

Socio-technical studies needed to be carried out at three broad levels - from micro to macro - all of which are interrelated:

There is a need for in-depth due diligence to present findings that can enable us to have a deep understanding of the questions of the balalo for a long-lasting solution to this issue”

Let's not sit about waiting for enough evidence while women and children are dying. Evidence and research must find us in the process of action

My ministry is aware of the multiple challenges faced by women, which seriously impede their progress in life.

All these are part of the work being done for frontier exploration in the country, while explaining that for now, government is saddled with all the responsibility of doing the surveys to prove the prospectivity of the basins, as the International Oil Companies, IOCs will only come in thereafter.