| A Non-Governmental Organization, Civil Right | | | | Ironically, yearly the Nigerian government allocates |
| Congress has begun on a rally calling on the | | | | millions in respect of climate change, but no one |
| Nigerian government to take measures to stop | | | | could actually tell what the allocated funds are |
| desertification in Nigeria to save the country from | | | | been used for, as the situation gets bad instead |
| desert encroachment. During the dry season in | | | | of getting better. The Civil Right Congress urged |
| Northern Nigeria in 2000, the weather is usually | | | | the Nigerian Government not allow the situation |
| very cold but now the people could no longer | | | | get worst. The sad news about desertification in |
| state the difference between the heat season | | | | Nigeria is that desert encroachment moves at the |
| and the dry season while some of the rivers | | | | speed of 2 kilometers every twelve months, and |
| have dried. Who is to be blamed to climate | | | | the good news, no one is talking about it neither is |
| change in Nigeria, whereby Electricity supply in | | | | the government bordered. During the rally, the |
| Nigeria is nothing to write home about, 75% of | | | | President of Civil Right Congress, Comrade Shehu |
| Nigerian homes and industries run on generators | | | | Sani said unless the measures taken to stop |
| on daily basis thereby emitting gases to the | | | | desert encroachment in Nigeria now, eventually it |
| ozone layer. The situation of climate change in | | | | will be too late to do so. “One does not need |
| Northern Nigeria is one that cannot be over | | | | a medicated eye class or a microscope to see |
| looked, the rivers in Northern Nigeria have all dried | | | | that Nigeria in gradually becoming a desert as the |
| up, the eastern Nigeria are faced with erosion, the | | | | far Northern Nigeria has been rendered useless by |
| animals in the game reserves are no more and | | | | desert encroachment, if the government tends to |
| the fields suddenly becomes desert and the | | | | ignore the situation and refuses to take |
| weather becomes very hot. Despite the effect of | | | | measures, in ten years time it will be too late to |
| climate change in Nigeria, yet Nigeria is not able to | | | | take measures.” The participant of the rally |
| read the handwritings on the wall as the burning | | | | are on green t-shirt as a symbol urging Nigerians |
| of bushes, cutting down of tries and the use of | | | | and her government to go green by encouraging |
| generators in Nigeria increases on daily basis. | | | | tree planning and discouraging bush burning. |