STATE BY STATE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT
Introduction:
Hirsch W. Z. (1998) posited that, companies in unprincipled pursuit of profit can do great social harm. The environment suffers at the hands of companies which put production ahead of environmental protection.
Very little this day is said about the workplace in terms of public health and the work environment.
Man owes the environment where he finds himself a duty to regularly protect it from various pollutions and pollutants elements particular pollution caused by the activities of man. All these protection need to be pursued collectively and severally by the whole nations of the world. Efforts must continue to be intensified by nations, regional organizations and international organizations through meetings to regulate and regularizes the menace of pollution through legal and economic
The public health in the workplace in Nigeria is as follows:
- Factories Act Cap 126, LFN, 1990
- The National Environmental (Effluent Limitation) Regulations, 1991
- The National Environmental (Pollution Abatement in Industrial and Facilities Generating Waste) Regulations, 1991
- National Environmental Protection (Management of Solid and Hazardous Waste) Regulations, 1991.
In line with the above Act, CCAECI will be reporting on industrial disaster everywhere and anywhere against workers and request victims to report because health and environment are intertwine and it’s important to protect the workers within the industries environment.
Nigeria has a Nation diverse in tribe, religion and languages bound together through colonialism to modern day constitution hasn’t really fare well and more likely a paradox.
Has diverse the Nation of Nigeria is so is her environmental challenges. Across the North to South, West to East bless with various natural or mineral resources, comes with it various peculiarity of environmental pollution. Every state in Nigeria is endowed with natural resource and if not well harnessed and managed can amount to an environmental pollution.
For effective environmental protection in a country like Nigeria diverse in tribe, national resources, religion and languages so also should be it environmental laws, regulation and control, prevention, mitigation, etc. Practically, every states or region should develop her environmental laws, policies, strategies etc. according to her environmental need in line with changing times while the Federal government should ensure implementation, monitoring etc. of the state’s laws for the purpose and safety of all citizenry.
Periodically, CCAECI will be rating the environmental standard and compliance of companies or industries operating in each of the states to determine the following:
- Environmental assessment
- staff safety
- compliance with environmental laws
- company manufacturing product
Below is our States by State environmental Assessment
Delta State
Major Challenges are:
Oil pollution
Gas Flaring
Dredging
Domestic waste management
Flooding/poor drainage system and wildlife
The public health in the workplace
numbers of existing waste company
state dumping site.
Possible Solution by CCAECI
- Prevention
- Mitigation
- Clean up and liability
Note:
The year 1988 (The Koko Toxic Waste Dump) mark the major turning point in the history of Nigeria. Why, were it not for a story published in L’Unita, an Italian leftist provincial newspaper based in Pisa, the whistle might not have been blown on the massive shipment of highly toxic wastes in a small town in koko in Delta State formerly Bendel State. Thanks to Racaelli Gonalli a 23 year old female freelance journalist and the Nigerian students in Pisa who read the Gonalli story. The rest is now history.
Very little this day is said about the workplace in terms of public health and the work environment.
The public health in the workplace in Nigeria is as follows:
- Factories Act Cap 126, LFN, 1990
- The National Environmental (Effluent Limitation) Regulations, 1991
- The National Environmental (Pollution Abatement in Industrial and Facilities Generating Waste) Regulations, 1991
- National Environmental Protection (Management of Solid and Hazardous Waste) Regulations, 1991.
In line with the above Act, CCAECI will be reporting on industrial disaster everywhere and anywhere against workers and request victims to report because health and environment are intertwine and it’s important to protect the workers within the industries environment.
FCT Abuja
Abuja challenges among others include:
- Indiscriminate dumping of refuse
- The menace of street begging and scourge of destitution
- Street hawking, which has over time become a major trademark of the city
- Poorly maintained roads, blocked water and sewer lines,
- Poor waste management practices
- Poorly maintained street and traffic lights system.
- Numbers of existing waste company
- State dumping site
Possible Solution by CCAECI
- To help clean refuse heaps by the street and walkways
- Tree planting
- Provision of waste bin at various centre
- To Engage communities and citizens for environmental protection
- Collaboration, partnership with government and other private sector
Transformations can come in different dimensions depending on one’s perception-it can be from obscurity to light, poverty to wealth, etc. in case of a settlement, it can be from rural to urbanization and a mega status .
State passing through or experiencing the stages of such transformations will have so many to tales to recount. That was the case of Abuja. Abuja had undergone positive transformation because of her mega city status but not without her challenges.
In Abuja (mainly the satellite towns) the government and the residents contend with poor sanitation and waste management, which can easily pass for urban slums. Effort by the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) in keeping the nation capital clean need more support from the Area Councils to discharge on sanitation as their primary duties to clean up the parks, markets and the entire FCT.
In spite of the people’s expectations, Abuja like other cities in the country, still grapples with waste management problems; as some areas, particularly the satellite towns, e.g. Jiwa a densely populated urban slum in the Gwagwa-Dei Dei axis of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) stink because of the refuse heaps by the streets and walkways.
River State
Major Challenges are:
- Oil pollution (Ogoni land as our case study)
- Gas flaring
- Domestic waste management
- The public health in the workplace
- numbers of existing waste company
- state dumping site
Possible Solution by CCAECI:
- Prevention
- Mitigation
- Clean up and liability
How can we so soon forget Ken Saro Wiwa over the cry for environmental protection? Ken Saro-Wiwa.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
Kenule “Ken” Beeson Saro Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. Initially as spokesperson, and then as president, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the operations of themultinational petroleum industry, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company. He was also an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government, which he viewed as reluctant to enforce environmental regulations on the foreign petroleum companies operating in the area.
At the peak of his non-violent campaign, he was tried by a special military tribunal for allegedly masterminding the gruesome murder of Ogoni chiefs at a pro-government meeting, and hanged in 1995 by the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. His execution provoked international outrage and resulted in Nigeria’s suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations for over three years.
Years after his death, these are still the present environmental condition of the Ogoni people.
Are this Environmental terrorist or talibans? Where profit supersede life, safety and health of the ordinary people. Send your views and comment
‘‘Hirsch W. Z. (1998) posited that, companies in unprincipled pursuit of profit can do great social harm. The environment suffers at the hands of companies which put production ahead of environmental protection’’
Aren’t environmental issues primarily about health? Detractors like to trivialize environmentalists as “tree huggers,” but the bottom line is that pollution makes us sick, right? Wouldn’t people care more if they had a better understanding of that?— Tim Douglas, Stowe, Vt.
Very little this day is said about the workplace in terms of public health and the work environment.
The public health in the workplace in Nigeria is as follows:
- Factories Act Cap 126, LFN, 1990
- The National Environmental (Effluent Limitation) Regulations, 1991
- The National Environmental (Pollution Abatement in Industrial and Facilities Generating Waste) Regulations, 1991
- National Environmental Protection (Management of Solid and Hazardous Waste) Regulations, 1991.
In line with the above Act, CCAECI will be reporting on industrial disaster everywhere and anywhere against workers and request victims to report because health and environment are intertwine and it’s important to protect the workers within the industries environment.
Oyo State
Major Challenges are:
- Domestic Waste Management
- Industrial waste Management
- Numbers of existing waste company
- State dumping site
Possible Solution by CCAECI:
- Prevention
- Mitigation
- Waste management
- Clean up and liability
Just of recent, in February 2010, Exide Battery Company dumped waste battery at Lalupon-Ilegbon Area in Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State; it was reported killing the villagers and theirs.
Most companies in Nigeria tend to disregard environmental laws and protection and very little interest or response from the Government in addressing the actions of companies.
Lagos State
Major Challenges are:
- Urban Population growth
- Industrialization and Globalization
- Domestic waste management and citizens compliance
- Trash, especially plastic materials, eventually reaching
shared waters contributing to river or marine debris - The public health in the workplace
- numbers of existing waste company
- state dumping site
Possible Solution by CCAECI:
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- To clean-up the shores lines of Lagos state
- To clean-up of gutters and canals within the state
- To support and compliment the already existing structure of the Lagos state government on environment
- To educate religious users (worshippers) on the use and protection of stream, rivers, etc. for religious activities
- To educate the citizenry on healthy environment
- To provide more waste bin collection at various places and communities in the state
- liability
Note:
Lagos State in the face of urban population growth, industrialization and globalization has consistently kept pace with it environmental challenges and continuing involving in meeting it challenges. Across all the Local Government Area of Lagos State, there are over 100 approved domestic waste collectors in an effort to keep Lagos clean. From collection, transfer to disposal, Lagos state through it agency has been working hard to manage over 1,000 metric ton of waste and garbage generated daily in the city.
The Lagos state through it agency has a sizeable number of workforce deployed for the tasks of sweeping streets, collection and shifting the garbage to the designated dump sites
One major problem facing the Lagos State Government by it resident is littering: Littering is the criminal throwing of inappropriate man-made objects, un-removed, onto public and private properties. This has caused a huge challenge resulting in blockage of drainage system and pollution of rivers. Every lagosians (to mean every person living in Lagos) has to stop this bad environmental attitude and strict laws have to be implemented for compliance.
We suggest the Lagos State to put in place a litter trap catches floating waste like the one in the Yarra River, east-central Victoria, Australia
Industrialization and Globalization
It was the industrial revolution that gave birth to environmental pollution as we know it today. So Lagos is not an exception to the challenges caused by this industrial revolution resulting in industrial pollution. Issues to be consider is respect of Lagos challenges is the non-compliance of industrial company operating in the state. Very soon we shall be compiling all industries operating in Lagos and measure their compliance level within the state and make public such finding and also take legal actions.
We suggest the Lagos State to put in place a dust collector like one in Pristina.
Domestic waste management and citizen’s compliance
The management waste system of Lagos has done very well to a large extend, not to mention the non-compliance of it residents to environmental laws, but of more worrisome to us is the various refuse dump site of Lagos state, using the refuse dump site at Ojota environs as our case study, and considering the health risk and bad odour and proximate of this site to the general public, the public image it create to visitors on entering Lagos as a centre of Excellence, etc. The choice of that location may have been good years back, but today events of urban population has overtaken it purpose and such it should be relocated. It present condition constitute a public Nuisance.
People living in the state have the right to high quality, safe, affordable and effective environmental protection. The laws that aim to protect us from health harm often lag behind the knowledge on the hazards; we strongly believe that environmental protection is necessary in order to safeguard a high level of health protection of Nigerians.
Very little this day is said about the workplace in terms of public health and the work environment.
The public health in the workplace in Nigeria is as follows:
- Factories Act Cap 126, LFN, 1990
- The National Environmental (Effluent Limitation) Regulations, 1991
- The National Environmental (Pollution Abatement in Industrial and Facilities Generating Waste) Regulations, 1991
- National Environmental Protection (Management of Solid and Hazardous Waste) Regulations, 1991.
In line with the above Act, CCAECI will be reporting on industrial disaster everywhere and anywhere against workers and request victims to report because health and environment are intertwine and it’s important to protect the workers within the industries environment.
Bayelsa State
Major Challenges are:
- Oil pollution,
- Gas flaring
- Poor domestic waste management system, social and economic impacts of indiscriminate dumping of waste
- Lack of access to safe drinking water, which poses a significant threat to public health across the various communities.
- The public health in the workplace
- numbers of existing waste company
- state dumping site
Possible Solution by CCAECI:
- Prevention
- Mitigation
- Clean up and liability
- Oil Clean up and liability
Note:
Domestic household Waste management of the state have not kept pace with all the communities’ needs and the current waste management structure is not adequate to meet these increasing needs. It is necessary for the state to collaborate at all levels to ensure that resources are applied in a way that limits additional threats of land contamination and prevents adding to legacy land
Protecting and restoring water quality across the various communities and providing adequate drinking water and basic sanitation services requires collaborative multi-jurisdictional planning efforts of the government.
The continue Oil spillage into lands, rivers and environment by the Multi-national oil company over years can be summarized according to
‘‘Hirsch W. Z. (1998) posited that, companies in unprincipled pursuit of profit can do great social harm. The environment suffers at the hands of companies which put production ahead of environmental protection’’
Aren’t environmental issues primarily about health? Detractors like to trivialize environmentalists as “tree huggers,” but the bottom line is that pollution makes us sick, right? Wouldn’t people care more if they had a better understanding of that?— Tim Douglas, Stowe, Vt.
Very little this day is said about the workplace in terms of public health and the work environment.
The public health in the workplace in Nigeria is as follows:
- Factories Act Cap 126, LFN, 1990
- The National Environmental (Effluent Limitation) Regulations, 1991
- The National Environmental (Pollution Abatement in Industrial and Facilities Generating Waste) Regulations, 1991
- National Environmental Protection (Management of Solid and Hazardous Waste) Regulations, 1991.
In line with the above Act, CCAECI will be reporting on industrial disaster everywhere and anywhere against workers and request victims to report because health and environment are intertwine and it’s important to protect the workers within the industries environment.
EDO STATE
Major Challenges are:
- Deforestation
- Flooding/poor drainage system and wildlife.
- Mining pollution
- Domestic waste management
- The public health in the workplace
- Numbers of existing waste company
- State dumping site.
Possible Solution by CCAECI:
- Prevention
- Tree planting
- Clean up
- Forest guard
Note:
Deforestation in Edo State is on the increase as a result of frequent illegal felling of tress, and smuggling costing the state a huge ecological devastation being unleashed on the environment. With very little or zero effort, the government seems not to fully appreciate the enormity of the challenges at hand with clear and visible signs portending danger to the state.
Presently, across some parts of the state, there are drought, desertification and poor yields of crops, while some other areas are experiencing flooding and erosion, etc. The on-going deforestation in Edo State will some days become insurmountable if no collective effort is made now. There would likely be no future if today is destroyed. Let make hay while the sunshine. Where are the forest guard?
Very little this day is said about the workplace in terms of public health and the work environment.
The public health in the workplace in Nigeria is as follows:
- Factories Act Cap 126, LFN, 1990
- The National Environmental (Effluent Limitation) Regulations, 1991
- The National Environmental (Pollution Abatement in Industrial and Facilities Generating Waste) Regulations, 1991
- National Environmental Protection (Management of Solid and Hazardous Waste) Regulations, 1991.
In line with the above Act, CCAECI will be reporting on industrial disaster everywhere and anywhere against workers and request victims to report because health and environment are intertwine and it’s important to protect the workers within the industries environment.