Chinese-Run Company Aided By Govt Officials Exports Charcoal And Timber Despite Ban, Threatening Nigeria’s Forests | Sahara Reporters

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Nigeria officially banned charcoal export in 2017 when the Federal Department of Forestry stopped giving charcoal export permits, but the Chinese-run company has gotten around the regulations with the help of government officials tasked with enforcing the rules.

As the world’s second-largest producer of charcoal, Nigeria has lost most of its forests. But this depletion is not caused by charcoal alone as timber, farming and construction also accelerate deforestation. The country moved from having 12.2 percent of forest area in 2007 to 7.7 percent in 2017 – deforestation of a landmass bigger than Belgium in a decade – according to the World Bank’s The Little Green Data Book.

At Obollo Afor, about 56 kilometres from the charcoal factory, a proportion of the company’s staff work at a field that has a collection of wood. Truck-mounted forklift haul logs numbered with white chalk into 40-foot containers. The company listed three Nigerian directors – Adullahi Abubakar Baba, Alhassan Baba and Yunusa Ibrahim – who are all bearing as its shareholders, according to the company’s incorporation documents obtained by SaharaReporters from the Corporate Affairs Commission.

Since the factory began operation, locals supply the feedstock from forests across the state and have started going to the neighbouring states of Kogi and Benue states to get the wood, according to a logger who supplies to the factory.

 

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Mobility_DeMan What do the government of the zoo knows? By 2035 most countries will be carbon neutral which means fossil fuels will be in less demand. When that happens the Fulanis will go and the fools calling for one Nigeria will awake up. Therefore it is better to destroy the zoo now

China has landed in Nigeria

They are a virus on this planet. Consuming everything in sight! And our myopic and dumb ass people help them in exchange for peanuts!

Most Nigerians are made slaves in their native abode

Greenpeace

Imagine , this kind of thing, Nigeria no get leader aswrugad

Collecting down trees and not planting it back its an isssue

Asian imperialism in Africa ,after giving out western loans ,Africa must pay back with their resources ,every imperialist nation taking advantage of the western economic enslavement of Africa that places us in a debt based economy that is dependent on the dollars for survival

Meanwhile Nigerians can't do this in their country. So Nigerian laws are for the poor citizens? Why are these people so confident in doing these things they can't even do in their country?

opeyemifolarin1 Let them clear the forest please. That's where those fulani herdsmen hide after killing people.

It could be one of the ways the get back their loans

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