Environment

In 2005, Chevron Nigeria Limited established the Itsekiri Regional Development Council (IRDC) and disbursed N7.2 billion to it for the development of 24 Itsekiri communities. Eighteen years after, Itsekiri land is still in shambles as money…
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This is the part two of the investigation published yesterday. OLUGBENGA ADANIKIN, who recently visited Ogijo, reports. Experts' opinion PROFESSOR of Toxicology, Professor Uche Osunkwo, who shared his views on the implications of…
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GENTLY, thick dark cloud spreads into the atmosphere in Ogijo, a suburb of Shagamu in Ogun State, and later becomes soot and settles on wall of the buildings in the neighbourhood, making each houses look like an over-used kitchen.…
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On every school day, for the past two years, fourteen-year-old Patience Mbaze walks through Olusegun Obasanjo Way in order to get to Junior Secondary School, Wuse Zone 2, where she studies. But her unavoidable journey is…
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For the urban poor, charcoal provides an affordable source of energy for cooking. As rural farmers turn to charcoal production to meet urban demand, this seemingly lucrative business is depleting Nigeria’s forest resources, with…
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Awarded at over N400 million in 2009, what was supposed to be a radioactive waste management facility at Nigeria’s Nuclear Technology Centre never came to life. Instead, a building overgrown with scrubs lies east of the gamma irradiation…
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On December 15, 2004, four years after the establishment of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the shore protection works for Ayetoro, a coastal community in Ilaje local government area of Ondo state, designed with a geotube…
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By Anthony Akaeze Despite huge budgetary provisions for its maintenance and sustenance, the Lagos Light Up Project is plagued by poor service delivery Time was 6.35pm, October 19, 2017, at Ojodu-Berger pedestrian bridge, one of…
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The flowery legalese of any Fishing Partnership Agreement always appears to secure the sustainability of the domestic fisheries involved but really this economic document is Brussels’ strategy for plundering the abundant undersea…
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By Kikiope Oluwarore Beware, you might just be eating these as your meat and inu-eran!!! Nigeria is a country of meat-lovers. Across geographical locations, cultures, tribes, and socioeconomic status, almost every family…
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