Environment

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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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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