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The workshop aimed to enhance media practitioners’ skills and knowledge on effective reporting of environmental and climate change issues and holding the government accountable for its sustainable and green climate commitments.
Most of the emitted methane would have been prevented through zero non-emergency flying and venting.
She lamented that the only intervention the community had got from the government or any group was bags of rice shared after the 2022 floods. Even the bags of rice only got to a few residents. She had never seen the government carry out any project to mitigate flooding in the community, she said.
He was not alone in this. A villager, Ms Ebere Udokwu, told Dataphyte how she had to withdraw her children from a public school after the floods sacked her kids’ former school at Abacheke.
Recent researches have, however, found that climate change may not be blamed for desertification and soil degradation or farmer-herder crisis, though they also admit that it has changed the herders’ migratory pattern.
Some indirect impacts of heat due to climate change include increased incidence of vector-borne illnesses such as malaria and Zika virus, which cause severe birth defects in pregnant women.
The British High Commission and the Network of Incubators and Innovators in Nigeria (NINE) launched a tree-planting campaign in Lagos in February 2023 with a view to planting 100 trees in the state. The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) is also planting 5.5 million trees over the next five years to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country.
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A breakdown shows that Kano received N192 million, which was the highest given to singular state. It was followed by Kaduna with N152 million. Bayelsa received the lowest amount of N107 million. The states’ breakdown is shown below.
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Among the states most impacted by flooding in October 2022, Kano received the highest amount of N3.1 billion, followed by Borno, which got N2.46 billion. Bayelsa and Kebbi both received N1.20 billion, the lowest by states most impacted by flooding.
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Dataphyte visited Kofawe Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Ondo State to investigate the state of services and facilities. One official, Ms Omobimpe Oladunjoye, who was the only person working at the health centre, narrated how floods destroyed the PHC which serves about 15,000 persons in the community.
In Ondo State, a secondary school principal told Dataphyte how his students were asked to stay at home when floods sacked its building.
A review of the 36 states’ 2023 budgets showed that all, except 9 states, earmarked funds for flood and erosion control.
Analysts say because women make up the majority of farmers in Nigeria, they are more impacted by climate change effects on agriculture.
Despite this development, a review of the state’s budget performance documents shows that only 3.8 percent of the budget for flood and erosion control in the 2022 fiscal year was spent.
There have been several concerns over the utilisation of ecological funds, especially in the face of constant flooding and environmental problems facing the country.
