Nigeria-climate

  • Mansir Muhammed, Murtala Abdullahi

    Disappearing Wetlands Making Lagos More Vulnerable To Flood—A Geospatial Analysis

    The rainy season in Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos state, has become synonymous with submerged cars, homes, and commuters wading through knee-high floodwaters as the coastal city wrestles with the impact of flooding and the depletion of wetlands paving way for urbanisation as well as an appetite for affluent neighbourhoods. Lagos’s persistent vulnerability to intense rainfall […]

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  • Erosion: A Kwara Community’s Nightmare
    Abiodun Jamiu

    Erosion: A Kwara Community’s Nightmare

    It was a sunny Thursday morning, 46-year-old Owolabi, a widow and a resident of Isalẹ Ijagun community, Ilorin East Local Government Area in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, walked briskly towards her boiling pot of soup, to arrange the smouldering firewood to generate more flame as a gust of thick smoke filled the air. Owolabi […]

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  • Flood Displaces 1, 000, Washes Away Farmlands In Anambra
    Augustine Okoroafor

    Flood Displaces 1, 000, Washes Away Farmlands In Anambra

    Days after the Anambra State Government advised citizens to move from flood planes to highgrounds, more than 1,000 persons in Ogbaru Local Government Area have been displaced by rising water from River Nigeria. Following the development, many of the flood victims have moved to seek refuge with relations in places considered to be safe at […]

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  • Nigerian Hydrological Agency Warns Of More Floods, Food Scarcity
    Murtala Abdullahi

    Nigerian Hydrological Agency Warns Of More Floods, Food Scarcity

    Nigeria’s Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) on Thursday warned states adjoining the River Niger to brace for massive floods due to the steady increase in the volume of water in upstream Niamey, Niger Republic. The agency was notified on Wednesday by the Regional Niger Basin Authority that the River Niger flood level in Niamey attained an […]

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  • Climate change: UK Government to support Nigeria's efforts to reduce emissions
    Murtala Abdullahi

    Climate change: UK Government to support Nigeria’s efforts to reduce emissions

    The UK has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nigerian to support the development of Nigeria’s Energy Calculator 2050 and the implementation of Nigeria’s long-term strategy for climate change under the Paris Agreement. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ms Catriona Laing, and Nigeria’s Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, witnessed the signing […]

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  • Desertification Threatens Livelihoods In Northern Nigeria
    Murtala Abdullahi

    Desertification Threatens Livelihoods In Northern Nigeria

    Nigeria’s Minister of Environment, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, at an event to mark 2020 World desertification day in Abuja, disclosed that 35 per cent of the total land area in the country was threatened by desertification. The United Nations General Assembly In 1994, declared June 17 as “World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought” to promote […]

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  • Desertification: Borno State To Begin First Phase of ‘10 Million Trees' Project
    Murtala Abdullahi

    Desertification: Borno State To Begin First Phase of ‘10 Million Trees’ Project

    The Borno State Government intends to raise and plant 10 million seedlings in two years to address desertification and deforestation in the State. The State Ministry of Environment said it had commenced setting up nurseries across the state with experts and facilities to monitor and manage thousands of seedlings. Mr Kabiru Wanori, the Borno State […]

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