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 By Juliana Markus Kwada The importance of tree in our lives can not be over emphasize . Trees help us to grow a good health,  sound economy and protect us  from the challenges of climate change  and dessert  encroachment.   Millions of trees are being fallen  every day for human use like cooking or  furnisher designs among others.  By this growing demand trees are fallen with a  replacement. Even though, most of the perpetrators are aware on the slogan CUT ONE PLANT THREE  yet they ignore and continue to  wrong this generation and next.   Few months ago I visited a friend  in  Mubi , Adamawa state,  as I awaits her to  welcome me with drinking water  I had a conversation her neighbor was having  with some one from her village  from all indication it was a long conversation between friends who have not mate  quite sometime. What I picked from their   gist was that the ...

  Deforestation is the activity of clearing the forest cover or trees on a larger extent without replacement. The result of this exercise often leads to deforestation of the quality of land, weather and even climate. The primary culprits in the deforestation exercise are loggers who are acing in legal and illegal instructions. Studies indicate that the world has had approximately half of the forest cleared through loggings where no new trees have been planted. Picture From Google That can be translated into 18 million acres of land and it represents such a great loss to the environment Tree harvesting is not a criminal act, but the policy of environmental sustenance necessitates that when trees are cut down they need to be replaced with new planted ones. The question is, is the replacement taking place, especially in Adamawa state where activities of cutting of Madrid trees reached its peak living our forest empty. According to the World Bank about 3.9 million square mile...

Human activities generate many by-products which are generally seen as useless and discard as wastes. These massive amounts of wastes subsequently find their ways into ground, air, water every day and at the end becomes big problem to human health and economic development. One of such by-products is polythene popularly called Leda in Hausa. The used of polythene is increasing day by day , it is being used in almost every day activity of life by implication the pollution level caused by it will also increase thereby affecting almost every kind of environment including terrestrial   as well as aquatic biome. Picture from Google     Today in all the nooks and crannies of our communities, polythene are scattered everywhere and caused problems because it can’t decompose easily, it disseminate germs through pollution, block water ways and affects aquatic environment among others. With this in mind and going by the volume of polythene dumped into our water bodies and lan...

 

  By Tawfiq Muhammad Abba In her tattered garments, the old woman shrieks out of excruciating  pains alone. Without even an iota of mercy, her progenies are malevolent to her in all aspects as there is neither honesty, nor good followership or rather citizenship in a substantial number of them. Some of them have become vicious bandits, terrorists, kidnappers,  some are suffering from the deleterious sickness of kleptocracy; looting from her treasury solely to attain their insatiable desire for materialism and of affluence. These beastly pernicious whims and delights are bred into the dear hearts of her younger children as they too set their minds with the view to following the aberrant footsteps of their elders having no sincere affection and compassion for the senile mother by indulgence in the follies of the elders! Albeit the kind-hearted ones amidst the children come to salvage her, kissing her forehead with intensive love, the vicious ones and their vi...