Tag: Pollution

Opinion: Staring down pollution, a catalyst to combating climate change

by Amusa Temitope Victor In the running of a community in a hitch-free way, everyone has a role regardless of the nature of jobs they do: Physicians, Nurses, Teachers, Street…

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#ForTheRecord: My father may not have died in vain | Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr on justice for the people of Ogoni

by Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. Twenty years ago today my father and eight other Ogoni men were woken from their sleep and hanged in a prison yard in southern Nigeria. When the…

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Casey Haslem: Keeping your home water supply clean (30 Days, 30 Voices)

by Casey Haslem ''Contaminated water can cause serious health conditions, such as neurological disorders, reproductive disorders, and gastrointestinal issues.'' Contamination of a home’s water supply occurs far more frequently than you may think. Water contamination can happen…

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Air pollution + 8 other things that kill your brain slowly

by Life Span The brain is affected by factors we don’t always look into in our daily lives. Everything from the food we eat, the little bad habits we’ve formed…

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Opinion: Niger Delta pollution – A tragedy of the commons

by Maximilian O. Obiakor If we do not strive to create a new set of institutions to protect the common- property, then they will continue to be privately explored, exploited and…

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The woman working to clean up Nigeria’s dirty oil, The Independent profiles Diezani Alison-Madueke

by Nick Kochan Mrs Alison-Madueke, the daughter of a tribal chief, is seen as Africa's oil tsar. Well-resourced gangs are diverting some 10 per cent of Nigeria's oil production and channelling…

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No kidding: Make noise and go to jail – Gov’t agency warns

by Isi Esene Making noise may soon be a punishable offence if information out of the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) is anything to go by. The…

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Opinion: Shell: Our perpetual scapegoat

by Chimeka Garricks   For years, Big Oil has alleged that the bulk of spills are caused by sabotage (for example, according to a Reuters article, Shell admits that 198…

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