Climate-Global-Warming-Threats-To-Nigeria-Sustainability


Given the country’s "considerable resource endowment and coastal location, there are potentials for strong growth and development". Yet, little of these potentials have only been realised; and the effects of global warming and climate change are ravaging. It is in the light of these that this work is looking into the challenges of global warming and climate change vis a vis sustainable development in Nigeria and put forward a framework for sustainability of social and economic sectors. The work is based on both primary and secondary sources of data and information. Nigeria is excellent in policy formulation and envisioning of lofty ideas towards sustainable growth and development. These have resulted into a number of organs, agencies, programmes and others of governments, government parastatals and agencies. But global warming, climate change, and lack of political wills, indiscipline and unpatriotic tendencies for implementation remains abacus and defy to sustainability. Long term priority towards mitigating the effects of climate change and global warming and the overall consequences on the environment of man may include but not necessarily limited to phasing out fossil fuel electricity, evolving and deploying low-carbon and zero-carbon technologies, improving energy efficiency, greening transportation, reviving up renewable, ensuring sustainable development, managing forests and agriculture, and exploring nuclear power. Agricultural sector must be encouraged and supported far more than the aspiration of vision 2020; and the sector may not have to diversify more than vision 20:2020 anticipated. Irrigation must be massive particularly in the dry north to counter the effects of rising temperature on rain-fed yields. Key words: Nigeria potentials, vision 20:2020, climate change, threats, sustainability.

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, Tai Solarin University of Education Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria.
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Currently, the country ranks 158 out of 177 economies on the Human Development Index (Human Development Report, 2008), despite her rich cultural endowment and abundant human and natural resources; Vision 20:2020 recognises the criticality of attaining the 2015 Millennium Development Goals and improving the wellbeing of the populace, especially the under-privileged, including women and children. To attain people-oriented goals, the Vision 20:2020 and its organs seek amongst others to: (a) Adopt a decentralized approach to the development and implementation of pro-poor programmes. (b) Reform the educational system in conjunction with states and local governments to enforce completion of the mandatory nine-year Universal Basic Education programme, while building new capacity in technical and vocational education. (c) Support small scale and rural farmers while sustaining the renewed national focus on commercial agriculture. (d) Encourage population control measures to reduce the massive demand-pull on existing resources. (e) Expand and enhance the primary health care system to improve access to health for all citizens while improving the national health database as a tool for proactive health delivery planning. (f) Improve the availability, affordability, and transferability of housing units by developing a new land administration and land title transfer system. (g) Develop an effective primary housing finance system, and facilitate linkage of that market to the capital market to provide long-term mortgage finance. Towards realisation of these, a Business Support Group was initiated by the Secretariat of the National Steering Committee of Vision 2020, to engender Private Sector support to: (1) Generate publicity, public opinion and national buy-in. (2) Mobilize resources from the private sector. (3) Organize fund raising activities to support NV2020. (4) Provide technical and financial support (Mutallab, 2011). The Vision20:2020 and its various organs and agencies have been at work to achieve and actualise its erstwhile and potential imminent objectives and goals in recognition of the Millennium Development Goals and the wellbeing of the populace (Appendices 1 and 2 (A and B).


Adeyemo (2010) writes on Nigerian reservation/conservations; and in particular, that historians tell about a government reservation in Ibadan that was maintained actively in the colonial era”

It was the original idea of the colonialists in the 1940s. It stretched from Queen Elizabeth Road to Adeoyo Agbadagbudu area. This area was designed to prevent desert encroachment and for the economic use of the wood, for example, as electric poles. The successive governments even encouraged the “plant a tree” campaign as a means to keep many areas green and to fight desert encroachment.... Igbo Agala has an exclusive attachment call Bower Tower from where one views the entire city. .... Bower Tower was named after the colonial administrator. It is estimated over. .... 80 years away. It was illegal to collect firewood from there as it was a reserved area. There were wardens, asogba, at the time whose jobs were to keep the forest free from wood poachers. .... Unfortunately, the forest has since lost its environmental appeals. Successive governments have downplayed the importance of conservation and neglected to look after one of Ibadan’s antique treasures. .... is a far cry from what it was designed to be. It has been desecrated. .... There is a new policy whereby the land has been allocated for building of residential areas, social/club house and the new Olubadan of Ibadan’s palace is being built in the green belt zone.


This study investigated the Mock Examination as a predictor of students’ performance in SSCE Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in Edo State. Discussion was focused on the following special question: Is there any significant sex difference in the predictive value of mock examination for students’ performance in SSCE Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry? Five public schools in three Local Government Areas of Edo State Senatorial District were randomly sampled for this work. The choice of this sample involved statistical method of random sampling. The instrument mainly used was a proforma, which was used to extract raw scores from Mock Examination scores and the SSCE scores of 2003/2004. The method applied in selecting data involved collecting the 2003 2004 Mock and SSCE results from the five schools. The findings of the study revealed that Mock Examination will significantly predict students’ performance in Senior School Certificate Examination in Mathematics. Sex difference exists in the predictive values if Mock Examination for students’ performance in SSCE Mathematics. Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended that students should be taught how to tackle West African Examination Council’s questions and the overall differences between performance in the Mock Examination and SSCE Examination should be solved.

In his presence and praises also............
http://www.uniben.edu/abstracts/gender-and-academic-performance-mock-examination-and-ssce-mathematics-physical-sciences

Ahead next month poll, politicians in Oyo State have started throwing brickbats at one another with a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], Wole Oyelese describing the three leading governorship candidates for the April as unfit to occupy the exalted seat.

Oyelese, one of the governorship aspirants of the ruling party in the state took a critical assessment Adebayo Alao-Akala, Rashidi Ladoja and Abiola Ajimobi of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], Accord Party [AP] and the Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] respectively in a chat with journalists in Ibadan yesterday and passed a verdict of incompetence on the three of them.