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Nigeria: Mountains of garbage

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria, Environment, Health

Nigeria Health Watch [1]: “Things have never been this bad. Our epileptic industrialisation is leaving problems we cannot cope with. If I told my son that as early as 1970s a refuse disposal van drove past our neighborhood in the campus of the University of Nigeria Nsukka collecting refuse, and that the Estate Department would come round once a month to cut the hedges…he would think I am a clown.”