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NULASS NATIONAL PULL OUT FROM JUNE 12 NATION WIDE PROTEST.

The national leadership of the National Union of Lagos State Students (NULASS), led by Nulassite Akinola Shasanya has distance the union from the purported nation wide protest to hold on June 12. The statement was issued and signed by Akinola Shasanya and Adam Edu, the NULASS National President and Secretary General to the press, on Friday, June 11th in Lagos, Nigeria. Recall that the NULASS national leadership earlier supports the nation wide protest on insecurity by responsible Nigerian youths and activist but later discovered that the protest might be hijacked by hoodlums, touts and political thugs. A lot of Lagos indiegenous students under our watch have fall victim of insecurity and kidnapping across the nation. We can't continue to watch our fellow students not feeling secured in the nation we call our father land due to the high level of insecurity among Lagos students schooling across the federation. However, after so many calls and appeal from different groups and high pro...

Nigeria Needs To Take Climate Change Seriously

By Dauda Mistura There is a change in the human environment that is drastically ending lives and taking peoples’ means of livelihood from them. Over the past decade sea level has risen, temperature is increasing and weather is changing rapidly across the globe. All as a result of human activities like fossil fuel burning and deforestation which increase heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. In order to contain this, various countries in the world are doing a lot of research into creating various renewable energies to provide cleaner air and a sustainable environment for their citizens. Like every other thing, Nigeria is lagging behind in providing a quick solution to its climate crisis, despite its numerous environmental problems. According to the 2020 global research of Hongkong and Shanghai banking corporation limited (HSBC) on climate change, Nigeria is listed among top five countries that are vulnerable to climate change in the world. What lands Nigeria on the lis...