Plastic waste from land based sources pollute the beaches and other water bodies. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via GettyImages With about 2.5 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, Nigeria ranks ninth ...

Take a walk or drive through the streets of most Nigerian cities, and you will see plastic waste everywhere. The country's rivers, lakes and ocean are also full of discarded plastic. Nigeria is ...

For decades, the environmental cost of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry has been measured by oil spills that poison rivers and gas flares that light up the skies of the Niger Delta. Yet another ...

Disturbed by the consequences of air pollution on human health and the dangers posed to the environment, Air Quality Monitoring Research Group (AQMRG), University of Lagos (UNILAG), in conjunction ...

LAGOS (Reuters) -Plastic pollution, discarded fishing nets and coastal development are taking a heavy toll on Nigeria's sea turtles, say conservationists battling to save them. "We're seeing a drastic ...

A key theme at this year’s United Nations Environment Assembly in Kenya is plastic pollution. It will be returning to a theme from 2018 World Environment Day. The evidence for the prevalence and ...

Shell said Tuesday it agreed to sell its onshore business in Nigeria’s Niger Delta to a consortium of companies in a deal worth $2.4 billion, the latest move by the energy company to limit its ...

Nigeria took a major step this year to combat plastic pollution during the recent UN conference. But many climate activists and civil societies are not convinced much will change given the role ...

In Nigeria’s oil producing regions, authorities are blaming illegal oil refiners for air pollution that can cause respiratory problems. Authorities began cracking down on offenders this month, but ...

(Bloomberg) — In the more than a quarter century since Shell Plc left Ogoniland in southern Nigeria, oil has continued to ooze from dormant wellheads and active pipelines, leaving the 386-square mile ...

Nigeria’s Supreme Court upheld an appeal by Shell Plc’s local unit against a ruling related to a pollution case that’s prevented the oil major from selling billions of dollars of assets in the country ...