THE NIGERIAN GREAT GREEN WALL: END OF THE ENDLESS WAITING?
By Abah Matthew Abah-Eny
Twelve years ago, the United Nations Agencies responsible for combating desertification organized a Special Conference in Germany. Central on the conference’s Agenda list was the economic strangulation that stared Nigeria and Niger republic in the faces as a result of their fast-worsening desertification problems. When it became time for Nigeria to present its...
DESERTIFICATION: NORTHERN NIGERIAS ECONOMIC EXTERMINATION PROCESS IN SLOW MOTION
The federal government of Nigeria under the leadership of president Goodluck Jonathan has shown the evidence of having woken up to the huge shock that is chilling the bones of world leaders as a result of the Environmental Armageddon that stares humanity in the face. ?He has demonstrated this by the kind of front-burner-development-issues attention his government has given to the Green-Wall project...