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Nigeria
Sea strikes
Issue Date: Mar 31, 1997
AS A result of the Atlantic ocean pounding the beautiful island of Victoria in Lagos with eerie regularity, the coastline of the island has receded at the rate of five metres a year. Most residents, who belong to the upper-income strata, are planning to move out of the island to avoid staying for days in water-logged homes every time the ocean surges forward.
Nigeria
Issue Date: Feb 15, 1997
The spirit of Ken Saro-Wiwa still lives on in Ogoniland and so does the spectre of Royal Dutch Shell, the petrochemicals giant. According to the movement for the survival of the Ogoni people (mosop) leader Ledum Mitee, crackdown by the Nigerian military over the past year in Ogoniland has assumed "frightful proportions". The Ogonis have been accusing Shell of destroying the Niger delta, threatening the survival of indigenous peoples and assisting oppressive military operations.
Running dry
Issue Date: Jan 31, 1997
For more than three decades, Nigeria's vast south-east coastal swamps have suffered ecological devastation. Countless oil spills due to oil exploration activities of multinational corporations have destroyed the biodiversity of the Niger delta, in particular. Farmlands drenched frequently in crude oil have lost their fertility, ruining the livelihoods of millions of farmers ( Down To Earth , Vol 4, No 14).
NIGERIA
Issue Date: Dec 15, 1996
The last big rain-forest in West Africa, Cross River National Park in south-east Nigeria, may yet be saved from going under the axe. Local and international environmental groups have raised a furore over the proposed logging operation covering 100 sq km on the edge of the park by the Chinese-owned Wempco industrial group.
Abuse of the used
Issue Date: Nov 30, 1996
NIGERIA
Issue Date: Oct 31, 1996
A mysterious ailment has gripped the nation and it is being blamed on 'killer beans'. A series of sudden and mysterious deaths has generated panic among people. It began early last month at Agege, a densely populated part of north Lagos, where about a dozen people succumbed to attacks of vomiting and severe diarrhoea. The disease spread to other parts of the country which is Africa's most populous nation with a population of more than 100 million people. The victims had been eating beans, which were probably contaminated.
Star-cross in Nigeria
Issue Date: Sep 30, 1996
Filth is food!
Issue Date: Aug 15, 1996
in the sub-Saharan African nation of Nigeria, the phenomenon of garbage-fed fishes is one of recent occurrence. Prior to this, almost all that the fishes consumed were products of nature's bountifulness, from the deep seas, natural ponds and countless streams, and rivers that criss-cross the nation. Nobody really deemed it fit to either feed the fish or re-stock the waters.
NIGERIA
Issue Date: Jul 15, 1996
A quiet revolution is
taking place in the cocoa
plantations of Nigeria. Cocoa
yields had been on the
decline over the ages due to
ageing and neglect. Now
farmers in the cocoa heartland of Ondo state are being
trained to use artificial pollination and mycorrhizal (a
symbiotic association of a
fungus and the roots of a
plant) fertilisers. The result
has been overwhelming. Says project leader Adeduro Adegeye of lbadan University in
Nigeria, "Even from trees as
old as 50 years, we have
found we can get production
up from the 10 to 12 pods the
farmers are getting now, to
NIGERIA
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1996
Under the onslaught
of international criticism,
Shell Nigeria, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant which had
perpetrated one of the worst
environmental crimes in
Ogoniland, is trying desperately to redeem its image. As
a first step toward reconciliation with local leaders, It has
proposed to clean up all oil
spills in Ogoniland and restart local development projects in the troubled territory
on the condition of safety.
Said Brian Anderson, managing director, Shell Nigeria,
"All we need to start the
process is the assurance of all
Ogoni communities that our
staff can work safely in
