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By 'Dotun Akintomide Surveyors in the country have been tasked on various institutional roles they must play to arrest climate change devastations which have continued to ravage the planet, leaving tales of deaths, destruction and economic losses in countries. As Nigeria continues to grapple with the environmental problems emanating from global warming witnessed in perennial…
February 2, 2018
Recently, The New Diplomat published a report that exposes how tobacco industry for decades, had continued to abuse Nigerian children, targeting them to become the next generation of tobacco growers for the industry. While working on tobacco leaves bare-handed as witnessed in several tobacco planting communities visited in Oyo state, minors get exposed to nicotine,…
January 11, 2018
Oxygen is life but underneath the global oceans, this essential gas is becoming scarce, threatening fish species and other aquatic creatures. According to Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, scientists have found that the oxygen content of global oceans has been declining mainly because of human activities. This could ultimately cause societal and economic harm. Deoxygenation…
January 6, 2018
By 'Dotun Akintomide Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has exposed the global infractions committed by the three multinationals pencilled down amongst companies set to enter a Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement with the Lagos state government to manage its water. The companies - Veolia/Shoreline Group; and Abengoa, Naston & Partners; and…
December 20, 2017
No fewer than 20 vehicles and four commercial motorcycles were on Wednesday afternoon burnt when a tanker laden with petrol fell and spilled its content on the Festac Link Bridge in Awuwo Odofin LGA of Lagos State. The fire started at noon and raged for about an hour. Fire fighters arrived at the scene about…
December 13, 2017
Agency Report - President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Paris appealed to the international community to support Nigeria’s commitment to reducing the negative effects of climate change. The president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina in a statement in Abuja said Buhari made the appeal in a submission to the “One Planet”…
December 13, 2017
By 'Dotun Akintomide Shrouded in water-tight secrecy, the $80 billion (N16trn) nuclear plants' deal signed last October by the incumbent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been described by concerned activists' groups as a looming catastrophe hanging on Nigeria's civil population, worse than the deadly sect, Boko Haram and its unending holocaust. According to snippets…
December 12, 2017
By 'Dotun Akintomide The federal government has lamented over the activities of illegal miners which has made the nation lost about $9 billion (N3trn) in two years with huge losses recorded in illegal gold exportation. The minister of mines and solid minerals, Kayode Fayemi, made this known after the Federal Executive Council ( FEC) meeting…
November 23, 2017
From child labour on Nigerian tobacco fields to luring of kids as replacement smokers, 'Dotun Akintomide uncloaks how 'Big Tobacco' companies, for decades, have been able to keep children at the center of a blueprint that has helped sustain the multi-billion dollar industry against public backlash -- the ruins of many generations. Imperiling of minor smokers…
November 13, 2017
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By 'Dotun Akintomide Surveyors in the country have been tasked on various institutional roles they must play to arrest climate change devastations which have continued to ravage the planet, leaving tales of deaths, destruction and economic losses in countries. As Nigeria continues to grapple with the environmental problems emanating from global warming witnessed in perennial…
February 2, 2018
Recently, The New Diplomat published a report that exposes how tobacco industry for decades, had continued to abuse Nigerian children, targeting them to become the next generation of tobacco growers for the industry. While working on tobacco leaves bare-handed as witnessed in several tobacco planting communities visited in Oyo state, minors get exposed to nicotine,…
January 11, 2018
Oxygen is life but underneath the global oceans, this essential gas is becoming scarce, threatening fish species and other aquatic creatures. According to Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, scientists have found that the oxygen content of global oceans has been declining mainly because of human activities. This could ultimately cause societal and economic harm. Deoxygenation…
January 6, 2018
By 'Dotun Akintomide Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has exposed the global infractions committed by the three multinationals pencilled down amongst companies set to enter a Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement with the Lagos state government to manage its water. The companies - Veolia/Shoreline Group; and Abengoa, Naston & Partners; and…
December 20, 2017
No fewer than 20 vehicles and four commercial motorcycles were on Wednesday afternoon burnt when a tanker laden with petrol fell and spilled its content on the Festac Link Bridge in Awuwo Odofin LGA of Lagos State. The fire started at noon and raged for about an hour. Fire fighters arrived at the scene about…
December 13, 2017
Agency Report - President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Paris appealed to the international community to support Nigeria’s commitment to reducing the negative effects of climate change. The president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina in a statement in Abuja said Buhari made the appeal in a submission to the “One Planet”…
December 13, 2017
By 'Dotun Akintomide Shrouded in water-tight secrecy, the $80 billion (N16trn) nuclear plants' deal signed last October by the incumbent administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has been described by concerned activists' groups as a looming catastrophe hanging on Nigeria's civil population, worse than the deadly sect, Boko Haram and its unending holocaust. According to snippets…
December 12, 2017
By 'Dotun Akintomide The federal government has lamented over the activities of illegal miners which has made the nation lost about $9 billion (N3trn) in two years with huge losses recorded in illegal gold exportation. The minister of mines and solid minerals, Kayode Fayemi, made this known after the Federal Executive Council ( FEC) meeting…
November 23, 2017
From child labour on Nigerian tobacco fields to luring of kids as replacement smokers, 'Dotun Akintomide uncloaks how 'Big Tobacco' companies, for decades, have been able to keep children at the center of a blueprint that has helped sustain the multi-billion dollar industry against public backlash -- the ruins of many generations. Imperiling of minor smokers…
November 13, 2017
