Counting Costs of Climate Change. By Stanley Ijeoma

CLIMATE change has finally come home; yes our lives have been invaded by floods of fury and other freak weather events that we currently grapple with.  From Lokoja to Onitsha, down to Yenogoa and moving north of the Niger to Makurdi, Adamawa and Taraba; it has been tales of woe, sorrow, anger and disappointment.  Confusion and utter bewilderment were clearly written on the faces of the governors of these states–I do not know of any state governor or minister in Nigeria today, including the Federal Capital Territory, that has appointed a cabinet level Adviser or Special Assistant on Climate Change –strictly climate change, specifically! Climate change deserves to be unbundled from the environment portfolio –at least at advisory levels -because of its cross cutting nature that requires specialized multi-sectoral knowledge.

Climate Change: Medical students want volunteer groups for rural communities

MEDICAL students in Nigeria have called for the engagement of young medical practitioners to volunteer in rural communities' on climate change awareness creation, the effects of global warming and green house effect.

The call was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the summit tagged 'Climate Change; A Global Menace That Can Be Halted Locally; organized by the Nigerian Medical Student Association in Abuja.

A statement from the association signed by Ubong Anyang, National Director, and Etuk Eno-Abasi Etim, National Secretary, said the summit which held between September 6-7, was organised with support from NESREA, NIMET, WEP, ICEED & CEASEI.