Our country, Nigeria spans almost 1 million square kilometres of land mass with the Northern dry savannahs and watered Niger Delta region. We are blessed with natural resources and not only Crude Oil but too much reliance on it has blinded most to the potentials of other sources of wealth. Sources like Cocoa, Groundnut, Palm Oil and so on. The issue of environmental pollution worldwide should be of immense concern to everyone because we live in THIS world and ought to keep our places of domicile pollution-free.
An uncle once told me that an American friend of his’ told him that “Nigeria has what it takes to be great like America BUT we have serious management and or leadership issues.” Some of us may not realize the level of environmental degradation in Nigeria but our brothers and sisters in diaspora as well as foreigners lament the level of destruction and apparent lack of concern by some companies with regards to the welfare of the indigenes of the affected areas or host communities.
The rate of sustained pollution in the country is getting worse each day and it does not take rocket science to deduce that the effect of pollution affects our mortality and life expectancy rates. How do we expect to live longer considering the toxicity in the air, water and food via chemicals used in farming et al? This is a topic that affects us all and should be given high priority by our leaders for not just our sakes but our children and those unborn.
