Group to plant 1,000 trees in Badagry as COVID-19 memorials

The Urban Tree Renewal Initiative (UTRI) has said it has concluded plans to plant a thousand trees in Ologe Araromi area of Badagry, Lagos, as coronavirus (COVID-19) memorial forest.

UTRI is a Lagos-based organisation that has taken tree planting across the nation as a means to halt negative impacts of climate change and preserve human habitat.

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The organisation’s Director, Ms Omobola Eko, during a mobilisation and pet talk with tree planter volunteers in Lagos on Sunday said afforestation was in tandem with natural sequence