HSE COMBO NEWS: Minister of Environment, Hajiya Hadiza Mailafiya, - TopicsExpress



          

HSE COMBO NEWS: Minister of Environment, Hajiya Hadiza Mailafiya, has revealed that the nation generates approximately 3.2 million tonnes of waste, which, if re-cycled, can boost the economy. She also attributed the prevailing morbidity and mortality profile in the nation to high rate of infections and parasitic diseases, especially in the rural areas. Mailafiya, in her address in Minna, Niger State at the 2013 National Environmental Sanitation Day commoration said the 3.2 million refuge collected was aside from the waste generated from other sources in the country. She explained that the challenges of managing waste in Nigeria was becoming increasingly hard, ading that as cities, towns around the nation expand and grow, the quantum of waste generated increases. __ SL8.IT for Blackberry
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 21:42:11 +0000

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