UNILAG pioneers environmental sustainability innovation
“Though it has become a menace, plastic is what our society will still require at every point of social and economic development. Taking our campus for example, given its location beside the Lagos Lagoon, socio-economic activities herein have major impacts on the coastal environment.”
NODSRA Visits Isheri oil spill site
Officials of National Oilspill Detection and Response Agency (NODSRA) has visited the oil spill site at Isheri where they inspected the sub-soil oil leakage that has been polluting the underground water and the environment in the area
Intrigues threathen oil spill management
Efforts at managing oil spill in Nigeria may come under bureaucratic intrigues as the Ministry of Petroleum has initiated a move to jettison the existing National Oil Spill Contingency Plan endorsed in 2003, by the Obasanjo adminstration
Sokoto flood victims get N80 million
No fewer than Six hundred and eighty-one victims of last year flood in Gwadabawa local government have received the sum of N80 million from Sokoto state government, State Water Resources Commissioner, Alhaji Umaru Walin-Isa, has disclosed
Taking advantage of carbon trade
Experts on environment have predicted that Nigeria can make over N34 billion on sale of carbon credit the nation is able to implement Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), projects
Jos Crisis drives up food prices
The intractable crisis rocking Jos and its environ is beginning to take its toll on some food items notably iris potatoes, cabbages, green peas, onions which are produced in the Middle Belt plateau
