Lagos is regarded as one of the most stressful cities anywhere in the world to live in. At peak times, it's frenzy can be nerve-wracking to say the least. Read on to find out how you can keep your Sanity in this city where serenity seems to have taken a vacation. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oMc0uZzfl_iMMBdUK0IqRhekFIimzZYa1Q/view?usp=drivesdk
By Oriola Odutoye and Ugochukwu Okafor You read the title correctly. Your pure water nylon is causing potholes in our roads. Especially if you live in Lagos, Nigeria. This is an Issue on how Waste Management affects Infrastructure. Pure water, aka, Sachet Water is skiomething that most Nigerians know and would have consumed at least, 1000 times in their life time. At least, Most Nigerians. It retails for 10 Naira, or 20 Naira on days when the sun is really hot, and the pure water is really cold and scarce. It is usually served in nylon or plastic sachets for my American friends. It usually holds 50 cl volume of water. Lagos is Nigeria's economic center. If it were an African country of its own, it would be the 4th biggest economy. Multinationals, Industries, Government Agencies, you name it, they are in Lagos. If you are looking for something, tangible or intangible, and it doesn't exist in Lagos, it probably doesn't exist on the African continent. On any given da...
Climate change in the past few decades has caused the Lake Chad Basin in North Eastern Nigeria to shrink. It has shrunk by 90% since the 1960s and has caused a downturn in the fortunes of the 30 million people who depend on it in Nigeria, Cameroun, Chad, and Niger. In the 1960s, it occupied an area of over 26,000 Square Kilometers, but in 2020, it was just over 1,320 Square Kilometers. One of the ripple effects of this is that it has caused cattle herders to increasingly drive south into Nigeria’s central farmland. The decades long battle over land between the herdsmen from the Fulani people and farmers in the central region known as the Middle Belt has thus rapidly increased. The root of the conflict lies in the forced southern migration, owing to the drought, (of which the shrinkage of the lake chad due to climate change is a primary reason). The constant battle for scare water and agricultural resource around the basin has also created another opportunity for militant groups ar...
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