By Ekemini Simon, TheMail While Lafarge Africa PLC boasts of a humane environmental policy in her mining operations, this investigation by TheMail unravels the nexus between illegal and unhealthy practices by the company, the government’s gross regulatory failure, and untold hardship in Mfamosing, a solid mineral-rich community in Akamkpa, Cross River State. Idaraobong Udo a
By Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi Cross River State has over 2,000,000 hectares of rainforest originally found in the State and perhaps the primary rainforest remaining was only 729,000 hectares. The rainforest has important biophysical properties which affect local, regional and global environment quality. Cross River State has a deforestation rate of two percent per annum, a
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The controversy surrounding the 260 km Superhighway proposed by the Cross River State government (CRSG) of Nigeria will not go away. Notably, the bulldozing of forests, farmlands and sundry properties commenced last year without an approved Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Curiously, the government issued an edict dispossessing individuals and communities of lands