Climate change,the environment and Edo option
AS a country, Nigeria has its fair share of ecological challenges. The most obvious indicator is that there are in each of the six geo political zones evident manifestations of the devastation which is more or less threatening to overrun a huge chunk of the country‘s landscape. In particular while the North is contending with an unprecedented challenge despite having a tougher landscape with greater level of resistance, the more erosion prone South East and South South are having their very existence threatened by the menace. The case with Edo state is, for several reasons, very peculiar. Situated along the country‘sl ow belt region, the state has had its fair share of the destructive impact. However, for reasons of the much talked about rise in global temperature, which resulted in warmer climate, it became one of the recipients of a massive volume of rainfall that recently inundated not just its coastal belts but also a number of areas in the hinterland hitherto free from erosion. Th...