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Onitsha Needs and Deserves Environmental Facelift
- By Emeka Chiakwelu
- Published 02/8/2010
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Onitsha the commercial Mecca of Anambra State in Nigeria, the city that gave us Main Market, the largest market in Africa, has been neglected so much that it desperately cries for a facelift...
Another World Cancer Day: Nigeria's Prognosis
- By Adepoju Paul Olusegun
- Published 02/4/2010
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While on clinical posting to the department, I met a woman who just had her worst fear confirmed, she was diagnosed to have a madly spreading cancer in her left breast...Zeroth strategy for waste oil disposal in Nigeria
- By Emeka Chiakwelu
- Published 01/30/2010
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Used oil or spent oil is a product of petroleum, produced during the process of fractional distillation. Due to the presence of the hydrogen carbon bond and hydro-carbon chains it poses a health danger to man and the ecosystem...2009 World Aids Day: Nigeria’s Journey So Far
- By Adepoju Paul Olusegun
- Published 12/1/2009
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There are uncertainties and extensive inter-collegial disagreements over the first HIV/AIDS case in Nigeria but the fact remains that the virus is here, and is eating deep into our nation, way beyond what our governments are aware of...I Stand On Existing Protocols
- By Felix-Abrahams Obi
- Published 11/29/2009
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Nigeria, the sleeping giant of Africa and its leaders and privileged citizens are still mounting podiums and making speeches and addresses rather than getting our hands dirty by doing what is needful to turn the tide of underdevelopment in our country...Saving Abuja’s Trees
- By MajiriOghene Bob
- Published 11/27/2009
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Even though there has been a lot of money and effort put in by the Federal Capital Territory to green Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, activities of another federal government agency, the Power Holding Corporation of Nigeria and other companies threaten the existence of the trees...Climate Change Conspiracy against the African Child
- By MajiriOghene Bob
- Published 11/22/2009
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The world’s decision-makers and decision-influencers are gearing up to confront the coming cataclysm of climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark this December 2009...Green Techniques
- By Chinedu Vincent Akuta
- Published 10/18/2009
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Climate change is real. There is no doubt that the earth is becoming warmer than it was. This is not a conspiracy theory. Most people you meet will tell you that there have been noticeable changes in the climatic conditions...Rain Flood: The Port Harcourt Experience!
- By L.Chinedu Arizona-Ogwu
- Published 10/18/2009
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Daily surfeit of rain in the southern part of Nigeria has blighted a-yet-to-come dry season. An attached flood has again brought problems for householders in low-lying areas of the coastal cities, towns and villages...Environmental Racism: Dumping Europe's Toxic Wastes in Africa & Other Poor Countries
- By Paul I. Adujie
- Published 10/12/2009
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Westerners know that toxic wastes are disasters waiting to explode. It is this realization of the magnitude of risks that have led to stringent regulation and control of hazardous materials in industrial societies...