{"id":2991,"date":"2019-06-07T08:50:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T08:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"air-pollution-nigeria-must-take-immediate-action-to-save-lives-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/07\/air-pollution-nigeria-must-take-immediate-action-to-save-lives-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Pollution: Nigeria Must Take Immediate Action To Save Lives \u2013 Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Ebere Agozie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5<sup>TH<\/sup>\nJune marks World Environment Day. The day is celebrated as a day for\nencouraging international awareness and action to protect the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s theme: \u2018Beating\nAir Pollution\u2019 is apt as air pollution is a deadly, man-made problem and\nresponsible for the early deaths of about seven million people every year, and\nabout 600,000 are children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nright to a healthy environment is fundamental to human wellbeing and it must be\nnationally reaffirmed to ensure the enjoyment of this right by every Nigerian\neverywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The air\nquality in Nigeria is more likely to cause harm than the air in any other\ncountry in Africa as the country currently has the highest burden of fatalities\nfrom air pollution in the continent, and the fourth highest in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World environment day\npresents a veritable opportunity to call upon the Nigerian government,\nindustries, communities and individuals to take action to explore renewable\nenergy and green technologies, improve air quality in cities and villages\nacross Nigeria\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.environewsnigeria.com\/air-pollution-nigeria-must-take-immediate-action-to-save-lives-expert\/\">Read More&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ebere Agozie 5TH June marks World Environment Day. The day is celebrated as a day for encouraging international awareness and action to protect the environment. This year\u2019s theme: \u2018Beating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}