Nigeria marks its independence on Monday, October 1, 2018 in the face of some environmental disasters especially flooding which has become a yearly occurrence, threatening lives, property and sources of livelihoods.
Incidentally, as at independence in 1960, the country was considered as among the safest abodes on earth, as there were no record-breaking environmental disasters whether man-made or natural.
In this report, Innocent Onoh looks at some of the contemporary environmental problems affecting Nigerians, their causes and ways of checking them.
