Nigeria: Special Report - Nigeria s Oil Palm Sector Struggling As Demands Surge allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Over half a century ago, Nigeria was a world leader in oil palm production, but its status has since changed due to neglect of the sector and extreme weather eventsOn a bright Tuesday morning in May, Fidelis Ekpo, a farmer, sat on a wooden chair, attending to a small heap of palm fruits. With a metallic rod in his right hand, he beat one thorny stalk after the other to extract their fleshy fruits. Less than 1000 metres away, a woman waited for.
Over half a century ago, Nigeria was a world leader in oil palm production, but its status has since changed due to neglect of the sector and extreme weather events
Akwa Ibom bans indiscriminate sand excavation premiumtimesng.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from premiumtimesng.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Inside Akwa Ibom communities where sand excavation degrades environment
Illegal sand mining activities in Akwa Ibom State threatens its environmental sustainability. 5 min read
In 2015, when a group of armed cultists stormed the family farmland of Asi Emmanson to excavate sand, she could not bear the pain of seeing her only means of livelihood and family heritage in ruins.
Seventy-nine years at the time, she developed high blood pressure and died of a heart attack.
She was a promising smallholder farmer who grew palm plants on the farmland she inherited from her late husband, Emmanson Uwaidem.
“Nobody ever tampered with this palm plot right from my youth to when I became mature,” Mrs Uwaidem’s eldest son, Ismaila Uwaidem, who is also the deputy village head of Ikot Ekpuk, a village in the South-west of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, said.