Once again! The World Environment Day (WED) held on the 5th of June 2017, has come and gone but the essence of this year’s theme “Connecting People to Nature” is a theme that implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to …
Environmental auditing is essentially an environmental management tool for measuring the effects of certain activities on the environment against set criteria or standards. These are used to help improve existing human activities, with the aim of reducing the adverse effects of these activities on the environment. An environmental auditor will study an organisation’s environmental effects …
The most fundamental issues in the sector have to do with the oil spillage and challenges faced by affected communities such as in Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa, etc. The issue of flooding in parts of the country has also raised concerns on what measures of pollution control, waste management and environmental health are in place.