Flooding: Experts warn of environmental abuse in Kaduna

As the rains return across Kaduna State, bringing renewed hope for farmers, herders and communities, environmental experts are warning that the season also exposes years of harmful human activities that threaten public health, livelihoods and the environment.
This was the central message at a stakeholders’ engagement in Kaduna, where environmental experts, development practitioners and journalists examined the link between human activities, climate change and environmental degradation.
Speaking at the meeting, Hajiya Halima Haruna, a lecturer in the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Engineering at Kaduna Polytechnic, described rainfall as a “revealer” rather than a destro...