Environment

Health is wealth. But quarry communities in Ogun are losing both to mining companies that are breaking everything, including the mining laws, Gbenga OGUNDARE reports. A HUGE dose of entrenched ignorance and lethargy. That is about the…
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IN SPITE of the overwhelming proportions of damages to farmlands, air, and water resources observed in Ogoniland by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the international organisation concluded in its 2011 report that all hope…
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FOR a year and three months, Veronica Aloy Khenom worked tirelessly on her okra and cassava farm, just adjacent her home in Gokana, one of four local government areas in Ogoniland. One bright afternoon towards the end of January, she…
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Ghana is facing a serious risk of an environmental catastrophe due to the high level of environmentally unfriendly human activities such as illegal logging, illegal mining, and illegal farming within its forest reserves.
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ABUJA is the capital city of Nigeria, and it is attracting more people –  and dirt that puts the health of the residents at risk. Drainages in different districts are clogged with a mass of wastes, and stinking water that flows sometimes…
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ON April 14, 2016, Nestle Nigeria assembled a team of geological experts, businessmen and politicians to witness the commissioning of a N5.6 billion water factory in Manderegi, an agrarian community in Abaji local government area of the…
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This second part of the Lagos waste story analyses the ‘failure’ of the Cleaner Lagos initiative and the way forward. By Anthony Akaeze  THE waste management contract between Lagos State and Visionscape was signed in 2017 and was…
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Despite sizable annual budgets for waste disposal, Lagos, acclaimed Centre of Excellence, is now a muddle of garbage. The second part of this story is about the ‘failure’ of the Cleaner Lagos initiative and the way forward. By Anthony…
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Part two of this investigative piece by OLUGBENGA ADANIKIN reveals alleged exploitation of Ondo mining community by Chinese company Xiamen Winstone Limited and its non-compliance with the federal government environmental laws. The report…
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A four-month investigation by Legit.ng has uncovered how illegal waste dumping buoyed by the abandonment of Abuja’s multimillion naira waste management project has increased the vulnerability of Mpape residents to lead poisoning and other…
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