INVESTIGATION: The illegal timber trade fuelling terrorism in North-central Nigeria, Benin

A trailer loading planks at a sawmill in Kaiama / Yakubu Mohammed

Logging and other biodiversity-threatening activities are prohibited under the National Park Service Act and relevant state forestry laws, except where expressly permitted by park authorities. But for about five years, logging has thrived in the Kainji forest reserve.

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SPECIAL REPORT: How gas flaring turns Akwa Ibom’s oil communities into a furnace 

Gas Flare at Ikot Ebekpo

In three Akwa Ibom oil communities, families now live within metres of blazing gas flares that have turned night into daylight, poisoned air and water, and exposed the widening gap between Nigeria’s oil wealth and the lives sacrificed for it. 

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