Category: Environment
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Flooding is an environmental problem that towns and cities all over the world contend with. It can be caused when high tides cause rivers or oceans to overflow their banks, or simply by heavy rainfall. There is higher vulnerability where natural drainage system is poor, or where the soil capacity to contain water is minimal.…
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Anti-Slavery and Aborigine Society was a group formed as a corrective against the imperfections of the Crown Colony systems. Lagos Auxiliary of this society, founded by Christopher Sapara Williams in 1905 was described by Gbadegesin in a 2006 doctoral thesis to the Emory University as an equitable opposition coalition that was characterized by extralocal engagement…
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Ogbomoso is located in Oyo state, south-western Nigeria. It used to occupy a small area along the road to Osogbo but is now a vast settlement with five local government areas which include smaller towns such as Gambari, Iresa-Adu, and Iresa-Apa, to mention a few. It was founded in the mid-17th century and its present…
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Ede is an ancient Yoruba town in Osun state, along the Osun River and the railway track connecting Lagos with the northern parts of Nigeria. The town hosts a federal polytechnic and a private university owned by the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Another private university, Adeleke, is being given a license to operate. There…
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Atlantic Humpback Dolphin, Sousa teuszii, has been suggested to have most likely inhabited the Niger Delta before the large scale oil exploration and has been said by one D.W. Rice to have originated from Nigeria’s 853 km coastline bordering the northern Gulf of Guinea. Generally, the species is endemic to the eastern tropical Atlantic, where…
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Idanre Hill is the system of high plains and mountains, the highest of which rises about 3,000 ft. above sea level just about 15km southwest of Akure, capital city of Ondo State. Oke Idanre, as it is being called by natives, feature the Owa’s Palace, Shrines, Old Court, belfry, the Agbogun footprint, and the thunder…
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Ijebu Ife, the old district of Ijebu province lying south east of Ijebu Ode contains three distinct units: the Ijebu Ife village area, the Isele village area, and a group of village and scattered hamlets named after the largest village, Ogbere having a distance of about 22 kilometres from Ijebu-Ode. Ogbere serves as headquarters to…
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Bate’s Dwarf Antelopes, Neotragus batesi, are very small antelopes, only some 5.5 cm long, and weighing from 2-3 kg. Males are a lot bigger than the female and it is only they that posses horns. This species considered shy and secretive because of its inconspicuous coat, coupled with the way it moves about its dense…
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Straw-colored Fruit Bat, Eidolon helvum, is a species of bats, called Àdón in Yoruba, a mammal having the distinguishing feature of their forelimbs being developed as wings, thereby becoming the only mammal that flies. The neck and back of this species display the straw color, hence the name, while the ventral side of the body…