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Nigeria needs environment protection protocols-Environmentalist advises

An Environmentalist, Prof. Edem Eniag, said that Nigeria still lacked the environment protection protocols that are needed to ward off environment crises.
Eniag, Director of the Biodiversity Preservation Centre, Uyo, Akwa Ibom, made the assertion while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos State.
The environmentalist, who was responding to the United Nation’s recent global climate crisis alert, said that negligence to protective protocols had made the country vulnerable to looming environment crisis.
According to him, the country has failed largely as a people to treat the earth ( our environment) with dignity and pride of place.
“The way we treat our personal houses to increase its beauty, comfort and security is the same we should treat our surroundings.
” Governments at various levels, organisations, corporate, individuals as well as communities must do the same or be ready to suffer from the threats already with us and bound to rapidly expand.
“Nigeria is particularly vulnerable! This is due to near absence of a well developed environmental management protocols, programmes and strategic plans.
“We have played politics and ostrich with our environment with supposed government competent authorities using rhetorics, glossing over the naked truth of a failing environment safety net for mankind.
“These challenges will be particularly dangerous to Nigeria because the bulk of our teaming population live below the poverty index, mainly illiterates, primarily dependent on nature to survive without any social security or support.
“We need early warning systems put in places across the nation; we need functional disaster relief and rescue centers as well as an army of well trained volunteers put in place and use as need arises,” he said.
He listed some of the remedies to include creation of more protected landscapes, conservation corridors and green spaces within urban and rural areas.
Others are the need to conduct massive enrichment plantings using provenances and timber plus trees.
He added that all residential estates must be built to international best practices to conform to good environment.
He regretted that housing estates in Abuja for example, do not meet basic environmental standard protocols yet they receive approvals and are phenomenally costly.
He advised everyone to adopt more green lifestyles in furtherance of all efforts aimed at achieving the UN decade for environment restoration.
“The nation’s leaders must stop politicising environmental issues because when disasters emerge, there would not be any cover up as its impact would be generic,” Eniag advised.(NAN)
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PANDEF Clarifies Visit To Tinubu, Knocks Wike Over Inflammatory Comments

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has called on President Bola Tinubu to prevail on the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike to retract his publicly disparaging remarks made recently against the socio-political body.
PANDEF described as regrerrable and embarrassing comments by Wike in the aftermath of the group’s visit to Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, even to the extent of insulting the late former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin.
Recall that the FCT minister had, on Thursday, during a media chat, described PANDEF as “the worst organisation anybody can rely on”, while also calling the board of trustee members of the body “political merchants”.
In a statement signed by PANDEF Chairman on Saturday in Abuja, Ambassador Godknows Boladei Igali, urged President Tinubu as the father of the nation, to prevail upon the Honourable Minister to retract his inflammatory statements and extend due respect to these eminent.
Igali clarified that the meeting with the president provided a valuable platform to discuss pressing issues of national and regional importance. Adding that “PANDEF remains unwavering in its commitment to peace, stability, and equitable development in the Niger Delta. We will continue to engage with great vigour, all relevant stakeholders in pursuit of lasting harmony in Rivers State and the broader South-South region.”
His words: ^To set the record straight, PANDEF the foremost socio-political body representing the South-South regions, composed of some of Nigeria’s most distinguished personalities. The delegation to Mr. President included chairpersons of at least four of the six SouthSouth states’ traditional councils, senior traditional rulers of major ethnic groups, former governors, past presiding officers of the Senate, prominent entrepreneurs, academics, and high-ranking retired military officers.
“It is, therefore, highly regrettable and totally unacceptable that a serving minister in the Federal Government would exhibit such brazen disrespect towards individuals of this standing. This attitude perhaps explains his continued refusal of the Minister to engage with the Peace and Reconciliation Committee, which PANDEF constituted as far back as October 2024, despite repeated attempts to reach.
“The Honourable Minister (Wike) characterized PANDEF as the worst organization ever” and accused its members of visiting the Presidential Villa merely to solicit financial favors. These statements are not only false but also unbecoming of a public official of his stature.
“PANDEF hereby calls upon Mr. President, as the father of the nation, to prevail upon the Honourable Minister to retract his inflammatory statements and extend due respect to these eminent Nigerians and traditional rulers who were, after all, esteemed guests of the Commander-in-Chief. It is apt to remind that the Minister does not own the Niger-Delta and his errant conduct should not be condoned.
“Notwithstanding this regrettable development, PANDEF remains unwavering in its commitment to peace, stability, and equitable development in the Niger Delta. We will continue to engage with great vigour, all relevant stakeholders in pursuit of lasting harmony in Rivers State and the broader South-South region,” Igali stated.
On efforts to restore peace in River State, Igali restated PANDEF’s commitment for peace in the oil-rich State.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Peace and Reconciliation Committee, which remains committed to resolving the Rivers State crisis,” Igali stated.
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