Tag:Environmental degradation

Pollution

World Environment Day: Group urges styrofoam ban to combat environmental degradation

The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a non-governmental organisation dedicated to environmental protection, has called for an immediate ban on styrofoam...

Michael Simire - June 4, 2023

Human Settlement

FCTA cautions residents against environmental degradation, distortion of master plan

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has cautioned residents of the territory against activities that lead to environmental degradation. The Coordinator of Abuja Metropolitan Management...

Michael Simire - May 5, 2023

Pollution

When Rivers, Akwa Ibom communities told tales of oil pollution, environmental degradation

Oil and gas extraction activities in Nigeria are often accompanied by routine gas flaring and oil spills. The resulting pollution has added to the...

Michael Simire - March 27, 2023

Pollution

Pollution: Monitor your environment, Delta community urged

Members of the Ekuku-Agbor Owa/Alidinma community in Agbor, Delta State, have been told to monitor the state of their environment to speedily address any...

Michael Simire - March 26, 2023

Pollution

Govt holds international oil companies accountable for pollution, vows to sanction defaulters

The Federal Government of Nigeria on Monday, October 31, 2022 said it is set to institute an environmental task force on oil pollution, and...

Michael Simire - November 1, 2022

Conservation

Walk for Nature: Lagos to restore identified environmental degradation

The Lagos State Government has developed an action plan for the restoration, protection and management of identified environmental degradation that may have negative impacts...

Michael Simire - October 16, 2022

Real Estate

Built environment responsible for 75% of degradation – Don

A don, Prof. Obas Ebohon, has said that 75 per cent of global environmental degradation originates from the built environment sector. Ebohon, a professor of Sustainability...

Michael Simire - May 30, 2022

Gender

Increased funding of women’s empowerment programmes, panacea to climate change, environmental degradation

Climate change and environmental degradation represent a great threat to poverty reduction and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Women bear the brunt of...

admin - April 18, 2022

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