Environment

 In the first of a two-part report, our correspondent Terkula IGIDI travels across Nigeria to find out how Nigeria’s drying up rivers have caused fish species to disappear, while fishermen and their families suffer SEVENTY-two-year-old…
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In the second part of this investigation, Olugbenga ADANIKIN reveals how fake Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was presented to host communities, scientific proof of lead poisoning of village water sources and borehole among other…
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Coal exploration is deadly, particularly to host communities and its impact on climate change is enormously dangerous to human existence. Nigeria is a signatory to the UN Paris agreement with commitment to reducing carbon emissions 45 per…
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  As illegal and unrestricted mining of the nation's solid minerals continues unchecked in many parts of the country, it is becoming clearer that it will be near impossible for the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to…
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Indiscriminate disposal of plastic waste and its unregulated production and use in Nigeria are fueling a crisis in the country. With no policy in place to regulate the use of plastics, Nigerians are daily exposed to threats to life by…
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School children in Abuja, the federal capital territory of Nigeria, still defecate in the open field because there are no functional toilet facilities within the school premises. Seun DUROJAIYE visited some of the schools in the Abuja…
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For decades, artisanal gold mining has been a daily activity in Osun State, yet left unregulated despite the severe danger it portends to the miners and the environment. Olugbenga ADANIKIN, in the part two of this series, reports about the…
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The ICIR reporter, Amos ABBA visited Azuzuama, in Bayelsa State where oil spills from pipelines belonging to Agip persistently occur without a commensurate remediation effort from the oil firm to clean up the affected sites. ESTHER…
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Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is an exploration by individuals or a group of persons with little or no technical skills. This undertaking has become a frequent phenomenon in Nigeria. In Osun State rural communities, residents…
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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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