Nigeria

About the Book

This book Chronicles the evolution of environmental consciousness in Nigeria following the scandalous dumping of toxic wastes in the country by a dubious Italian wastes merchant in the 1980s till the present.

Written by an investigative and distinguished environment journalist and teacher who had been on the field for over two decades, and has reported the activities of every Chief Executive of Environment at the National level and Ministers of Environment in Nigeria over the years, the book is highly revealing, engaging and explosive. It gives a frightening insight into the state of the Nigerian environment from an author who has also reported virtually all renowned experts locally and internationally. This is the book from someone who knows the experts closely, worked and related with them at the international level as well.

It is a book meant for those who are determined to tackle environmental problems using a multi disciplinary approach.

This is a book for the public as well as the special easily accessible to the general reader and offering some in depth analysis to the specialist. It provides important insights for those in and out of government who take seriously the global concern for environmental protection.

- Dr. Evans Olu Aina

First Director-General/ Chief Executive,

Federal Environmental protection Agency

The author has given a deep insight into the various environmental problems facing Nigeria and proffered solutions to them.

-    Dr. Goke Adegoroye,

-    One-time Chief Executive, Federal Environmental Protection Agency

1987    1988    1989   

About the Author

Tunde Akingbade is a distinguished Nigerian environment journalist and playwright. Author of many books, Akingbade won many international award including Vermont Studio Centre, USA, Artists Angel Award in 2001. He is also the Nigerian Media Merit Award winner of Segun Osoba Prize for Journalist of the Year 1992.

He won the United States Young African Leaders, Award in 1993.

A man of many parts, the author is an actor, a painter and photographer and has utilized these potentials to carry out aggressive environmental education in Nigeria using the radio, the television and newspapers. Akingbade was former Editor, African Science Monitor published by African Concord. He worked at The Guardian and Sketch. He was a correspondent and one-time freelance USA correspondent of the Daily Independent newspaper. He writes for the Sunday Vanguard newspaper in Lagos. He has written for reputable academic journals at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, USA and the Netherlands. He is also a Trustee of various NGO’S including International Institute of Professional Security. He is the Publicity Secretary of African Environmental Action Network, an international NGO with brances in Nigeria and the United States.

The author is the originator of Our Environment programme aired on the Nigeria Television Authority, the largest television network in Africa.

He has attended United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change conferences (UNFCC) and Desertification Convention in Bonn, Germany. The Hague, The Netherlands and New Delhi, India. His works have been presented at Free University, Berlin, European Union of Science Journalists, Budapest, Hungary, British Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), British Council, Nigeria, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and University of North Carolina at Charlotte USA functions in 2005.