Oluyomi Ola-David Insights

Today, I launch a change initiative, C ampaign A gainst L ittering i n Nigeria (CALi Nigeria). I have a dream to see a litter-free Nigeria where everyone young and old, male and female sees littering as an unacceptable and evil behaviour.  The objective of the Campaign is to create awareness on the environmental hazards associated with littering behaviour in Nigerians and the Nigerian environment. Very important is changing the perspective that littering is an acceptable behaviour.  Simply defined, littering is making places messy by strewing garbage around; it is making places or areas untidy with rubbish or objects left lying about.  I am just tired of getting angry every time I see littered environments and people walking past litters without a thought to pick them up to dispose them off properly. So I thought to do something about it.  I had even begun to conduct a research investigation into the phenomenon. However, since littering is first a thought

The experience of countries around the world indicates the relationship that subsists between industrial development and economic growth on one hand and with environmental degradation on the other hand.  Given the myriad challenges of environmental degradation and climate change, current policy advocacy centre on strengthening legal, regulatory and political institutions that guide domestic and international investment activities. i Further, discussions on a Post-2015 development agenda brought to fore issues of economic, social and environmental sustainability.  For instance, with respect to international capital movements, in as much as foreign direct investment (FDI) holds the promise of positive externalities, there is also the tendency that FDI may induce negative externalities (pollution, natural resource degradation, inadequate protection of worker health and safety, and complicity in the violation of human rights all of which confound the tenets of sustainable development