Tag Archives: Erosion

Delta State has commenced planting of no fewer than 50,000 trees in various towns across the 25 Local councils in the state. The Guardian reports that the state government also disclosed that three illegal saw millers were recently arrested within Oghara town on a tip off and are currently being prosecuted. According to The Guardian, the Delta state Commissioner for Environment, ...

Vanguard reports that Delta State Government has released N500 million as part of its counterpart fund for the World Bank assisted Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, NEWMAP. According to Vanguard, the fund is complementing the $2 million approved and released for Delta State by the World Bank from the $500 million approved for erosion control in Nigeria. This came ...

Reports show that the chairman of Brass Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, Bello Bina, has called on the Federal Government to tackle the issue of environmental degradation and erosion without delay, to prevent possible loss of lives and property. Vanguard reports that Bina said that though the local government administration had taken over some shoreline protection projects abandoned by Niger ...

The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, (NEWMAP) has restated its intention to complete all the erosion sites it is currently handling in Cross River State, soon. The Guardian reports that NEWMAP, with funding from the World Bank, is intervening at five gully erosion sites in Atakpa, Ikot Awantim, Nyagasang, Edim Otop and Ikot Ekpo, all located in the Calabar ...

Land degradation relates to the depreciation in the qualities and quantities of vegetation, soil resource, air, water resource among others. This article takes a look at the adverse effects of the activities of Man to the Nigerian environment. Land reclamation efforts for effective use constitute as a major panacea to the problems of land degradation in the not only in ...

The World Bank, as part of its commitment in addressing the menace of erosion in the Southeast, has effectively reclaimed erosion site covering more than 4,000 hectares of land in Obizi autonomous community in Ezinihitte Local Council of Imo State. According to The Guardian, the State Project Coordinator of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), Victor Anuenyiagu, made ...

Reports show that erosion has displaced over 500 residents, and destroyed 100 houses in Enugwu-Ukwu community, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. The Guardian reports that, when officials of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) visited the erosion site to ascertain the level of damage caused by erosion in the area, a community leader, Mr. Nwadinigwe Emmanuel, said ...

According to The Guardian, moves by the Federal Government to boost power supply nationwide through the construction of a hydro-plant on Mambilla Plateau in Sardauna Local Council of Taraba State may have begun to face one of the toughest challenges. The newspaper notes the reason to be that the community hosting the project is at the verge of being cut ...

People of Atan Offot, Uyo, the Akwa-Ibom State capital who fled the community last year due to flood threats to their homes and gully erosion have commended the state government for coming to their rescue. Niger Delta Voice (NDV) gathered that the community had for long been cut off from the rest of the state due to the terrible condition ...

After visiting some communities that are plagued by erosion in Anambra state, World Bank has charged residents to adopt and imbibe as a way of life all the erosion control measures taught them by the group’s field officers and other partners agencies. World Bank’s Task Team Leader (TTL), Dr Amos Abu, who visited some areas on sensitization mission, noted that ...