Environmental Sustainability and Health

From Lagos to Enugu down to Kano and most major cities in Nigeria today we see so many risky behavior displayed by most road users which makes one wonder are these road users aware of the dangers of their action to their own life and the life of others, or are they simply ignorant of the risk involved in what they do, or they simply just don’t care.

Every were we look today in Nigeria we find people hawking various commodities from electronic gadgets such as phone and  phone accessories, groceries, clothes, shoes,  food products such as cooked rice, beans, garri, tea or coffee etc.

Photo credit @ Every day in Nigeria across major cities and towns you find people in various market who help convey goods from one point to the other, either through the market or to a point where the goods would be loaded for transportation. In a city like Lagos were you find very big markets were commercial activities takes place daily you find these people either referred to as "job men" or could have other local names people in the market refer to them as.

For the first six years of his life Criscent Bwambale was one of 18 million people in the developing world currently estimated to be living with preventable blindness. He was born with cataracts, able to make out only vague areas of light and dark. In Uganda, where Criscent lives with his grandmother in a mud-built house surrounded by cocoa plantations, that means almost total exclusion from normal life. He couldn't go to school or play with other children his age, and had to rely on his family for even the most basic task.

Droughts combined with population growth, a lack of sustainable land and water management, natural disasters, political conflicts and tensions and other factors have resulted in massive population movements across Africa.

The vast hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica appears to be healing, scientists say, putting the world on track to eventually remedy one of the biggest environmental concerns of the 1980s and 90s. Research by US and UK scientists shows that the size of the ozone void has shrunk, on average, by around 4m sq km since 2000. The measurements were taken from the month of September in each year, when the ozone hole starts to open up each year.