By Mate Kolawole
Battling ringworm while leaving leprosy untreated is but one of the numerous extended metaphorical languages employed by an African tribe to highlight the futility of bending efforts toward the least important task. And since human needs are endless while means of satisfying them are scare and limited there evolves the need to prioritize activities on a scale of preference. The barrage of environmental woes besetting the Nigeria nation as highlighted in the media includes but not limited to Crude oil contamination in the deltaic region, intensification of aridity in the Sahelian north and massive erosion in the eastern hinterland. Other environmental issues that receive less attention yet impinge human existence include wastes-municipal, industrial and electronic, gas flaring, climate change and species invasion and extinction. Which should be on the front burner?
Nigeria’s environmental problems — The ringworm and leprosy
