In early 2010, while working in the impoverished rural region of Zamfara in northwestern Nigeria, the group Médecins Sans Frontières — Doctors Without Borders — encountered many young children suffering from fevers, seizures, and convulsions. An unusually high number of very young children, many under age five, were dying, and …
Introduction. Mining activities are known to increase the bioavailability of metals in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and often leave a legacy of environmental pollution long after active mining has ceased.1,2 Lead (Pb), a well-known environmental toxicant, is a ubiquitous metal pollutant which is widespread in industrial areas. Humans …
Phương pháp hiện đại. Quy trình khai thác vàng của một số công ty đầu tư tại hai mỏ Bồng Miêu và Phước Sơn được tiến hành như sau. Đầu tiên, là trang bị dụng cụ bảo hộ, thiết bị máy móc đảm bảo an toàn cho công nhân cũng như người khai thác. Tiếp đến, sau khi đi ...
Zamfara State is situated in the northwestern region of Nigeria. Its geography consists of flat, low-lying land with an average elevation of around 600 feet. The state has a tropical savanna climate with hot, rainy, and harmattan seasons. Zamfara's climate is tropical, with temperatures reaching 38 °C (100.4 °F) and higher between March and ...
In Zamfara, it had its roots in the growing demand for meat in Nigeria's cities, which made cattle rustling extremely lucrative. The thefts were originally from within the pastoralist Fulani community, targeting remote forest-based Fulani camps. As it spread to Zamfara's rural villages, it became more militarised, with AK-47-wielding men on ...
Zamfara is a severe example of an evolving trend of the world's poorest, most remote and vulnerable populations becoming unwitting hosts to environmental and occupational disease. BLLs and mortality rates were unprecedented, exacerbated by risk cofactors that complicated health and environmental response actions (Moszynski 2010; …
In Zamfara alone, 44,000 children have lost their parents to the banditry. Footnote 114 These trends will further worsen homeless child and street beggars in many cities in the region and beyond. National security. Finally, armed banditry in the North-West has further undermined Nigeria's fragile national security. Bandit attacks on ...
Wondering why the PAGMI programme would allow Zamfara to control its gold deposits while the oil in the Niger Delta is shared by the entire nation, leaders of the oil producing states were quick to point out that the situation concerning Zamfara gold was unconstitutional, as it violated provisions of the Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act, 2007.
Sống dậy ngành khai thác vàng Nigeria. Do ám ảnh về lợi nhuận lớn từ khai thác dầu, Nigeria đã bỏ bẵng việc khai thác vàng trong hàng thập niên qua. Nhưng ngày nay, Chính phủ Nigeria tìm cách làm sống dậy ngành khai thác vàng để tăng thêm nguồn thu ngân sách vì giá dầu sụt ...
Highlighting the impact of gold mining, a researcher claimed that some villages in Zamfara had recorded lead poisoning among children. The Nigerian government is now championing gold mining as it seeks to become less dependent on oil exports. Between 2010 and 2013, the mortality rate of children under the age of five rose sharply …