Chairman of the Bayelsa State Council of Traditional Rulers, Bubaraye Dakolo, has said that he, alongside his subjects, is among the living dead due to environmental degradation and pollution unleashed by International Oil Companies (IOCs) in the state.

Lagos State government has said that it hopes to double the number of its air monitor by the end of the year to 60.

The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), a non-governmental organisation, has empowered communities in the Wakrike axis of Rivers State to monitor their environment and report cases of pollution.

The Community Development Advocacy Foundation (CODAF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), on Monday, urged university authorities to fight seriously against the pressing challenges of plastic pollution, particularly the scourge of single-use plastics. Executive Director, CODAF, Mr. Richard Benin, gave the directive at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), during the launch of the Zero…

A senior lecturer in the Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Dr. Oladipo Olaniyi has prescribed an eco-friendly biodegradable plastic from microbial sources for developing a sustainable plastics economy as an antidote to counteract the effects of pollution caused by non-degradable-plastics. It is predicted that if current plastic production and waste management…

Notwithstanding the associated environmental risks, many households and businesses in Nigerian urban cities like Lagos still rely on charcoal as a primary source of cooking fuel.

As oil companies divest in Nigeria, aging oil infrastructure laid over years ago in the Niger Delta and the liabilities of oil pollution are

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has fixed June 6, for hearing an alleged environmental pollution suit filed against Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals and Fertilizer Limited.

The Jos Water Services Corporation (JWSC) has decried illegal activities around the Lamingo water dam site, one of its raw sources.

As the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) came to a close in Nairobi, Kenya at the weekend, the world’s policymakers have set the global environmental agenda to address climate change crisis.

The ban on styrofoam and single-use plastics to curb pollution by the Lagos State government may have been welcomed by many considering the menace they cause to the environment, but implementation becomes a challenge without the involvement of stakeholders in the value chain.

In 2016, the Benue State Government proposed a generator tax, claiming it would invest the proceeds in repairing and maintaining the ozone layer. However, when Terna Francis, the media assistant to the chairman of the Benue Internal Revenue Service’s board at the time, Mimi Orubibi, was asked how the proceeds would be used to “maintain…