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Nigeria: Before the Next Season of FloodAllAfrica.com | 26 Oct 2010The waters are beginning to recede. And gradually, life is returning to the several communities, which up till last week, had been ravaged by debilitating floods. Though there had been flash floods in some communities in August, the more deadly deluges started in September. And, a flood of tears flowed through communities from Jigawa to Kebbi and Sokoto states in the North West; and Lagos to Ogun states in the South West as well as some states in the South-east.
Nigeria | Floods | Food Security Nigeria: Save us From Epidemic, Flood Victims Appeal to GovtAllAfrica.com | 26 Oct 2010Now Signs that the late rainy season is eventually coming to an end, appears to have raised hope that the flood ravaging some communities abutting the Ogun River will soon subside. While the Lagos State government has offered a temporary relocation at Agbowa, an outskirt of Ikorodu, some residents of Isheri community in Ogun State still battle with the flood even as many of them claim they were duly warned about the situation by the state government.
Nigeria | Floods | Food Security | Waterborne Diseases Nigeria: Agony of a People Cut Off By FloodAllAfrica.com | 25 Oct 2010About 12 major communities in Nkanu area of Enugu State have been cut off due to the collapse of two bridges in Enugu South and Nkanu West Local Government Areas of the state. The bridges are Nyaba at Amechi Awkunanaw built by the Chimaroke Nnamani administration before its exit in 2007 and the...
Nigeria | Floods | Weather Conditions Nigeria: Raging River Displaces Odi CommunityAllAfrica.com | 22 Oct 2010Yenagoa — Raging waters of the Niger River has sacked the infamous Odi town and Okorozi community in Sagbama and Kolokuma/ Opkuma Local Government Council areas of Bayelsa State. The water displaced the people and their homes as over a thousand buildings including the Community Secondary School and Corpers' lodge in the area were submerged by flood.
Nigeria | Floods | Water Pollution | Weather Conditions Nigeria: Challenges of Environmental Hazards on Public HealthAllAfrica.com | 20 Oct 2010Although you may have heard or read a great deal about the environmental consequences of global warming, will probably be affected through famine, or war before the health of the population as a whole is harmed to a serious degree by the temperature change. However, increasing extremes of temperature, as a result of climatic change, could result in increased mortality even in temperate climates.
Nigeria | Hazardous Waste | Health and Environment West Africa: Climate Change - the Women Step inAllAfrica.com | 23 Jun 2010The negative effects of climate change on our world are becoming quite alarming. Unfortunately, most of the efforts to slow down the effects have so far been unsuccessful. But there is renewed hope as some women decide to step in. Speaking at the dialogue session, the Lagos State Commissioner for...
Nigeria | Climate Change Impacts Nigeria: Toxic Cargo Ships Face Forfeiture, says Environmental EnforcementAllAfrica.com | 23 Jun 2010Henceforth, any sea vessel, aircraft or vehicle transporting hazardous waste listed in the Basal Convention gazette into Nigeria would be forfeited to the Federal Government and the importer jailed for life. Benebo, who relied on the Harmful Waste (Special Criminal Provisions) Act Cap H1 LFN of 2004, said the law prohibited the carrying, depositing and dumping of harmful wastes on land and territorial water of Nigeria.
Nigeria | Hazardous Waste | Public Policy Africa: Initiating Moves to Climate-Proof AfricaAllAfrica.com | 22 Jun 2010Discouraged by the outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit last December as well as how negotiations at the just concluded talks in Bonn in Germany seem to have turned out, developing nations made up of mainly those from Africa are now looking inwards as a way out of the dilemma.
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