ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state government says it generated N5 million from fines levied against illegal loggers in Mokwa local government area of the state in September 2023.
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Cross River State Government intercepted 32 trucks loaded with illegal timber at the border community with Ebonyi State on Monday.
A coalition of stakeholders in Cross River state has faulted the immediate past governor of the state, Prof Ben Ayade for failing to control the forests or sustain the status quo that his predecessors had instituted.
A coalition of environment and ecology-focused civil society organizations under the aegis of ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ in Cross River State have called on the state’s incoming governor, Senator Bassey Edet Otu, to read the riot act to those destroying forests in the state.
The federal government, in its bid to address deforestation in the country has distributed cooking gas cylinders to smallholder women…
Some Nigerian stakeholders in the Northeast have identified obsolete environmental and forestry laws as a trigger for the continuous plundering…
The newly-elected President of Sierra Leone, Mr Julius Bio, on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 issued a directive ordering the suspension…