Environmental degradation: Report indicts Oil firms
Global attention was beamed on the devastating oil pollution in Bayelsa State on Tuesday as the Bayelsa Oil and Environmental Commission (BSOEC) presented its report to the House of Lords in London. The 211-page report entitled: “An Environmental Genocide: Counting the Human Cost of Oil in Bayelsa, Nigeria,” is a detailed documentation of the over […]
Nigeria: 13 polio cases reported in Zamfara, 2 other states in 2023 –WHO
Country office of World Health Organisation (WHO), has confirmed that 13 cases of circulating Variant Poliovirus (cVPV2) have been reported in three states in 2023. WHO Nigeria, in a statement posted on its Twitter page, confirmed that Zamfara State accounted for over 50 per cent of the circulating variant poliovirus cases reported in Nigeria, while […]