NatureNews to plant 5 billion trees by 2030

Africa’s foremost environmental newspaper, NatureNews, is set to revolutionise the afforestation campaign in Nigeria as it unveiled an initiative to plant 5 billion trees by the year 2030.

Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of NatureNews, Aliu Akoshile, disclosed this on Tuesday at the newspaper’s third-anniversary lecture held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.

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The lecture, titled Climate Change and Energy Transition in Nigeria, was delivered by the Director General of Nigeria Country Office, African Development Bank Group, Mr. Lamin Barrow.

Mr. Akoshile said the ambitious afforestation initiative, branded as “NaijaGreenProject 2030”, is a product of nearly two years of consultation with relevant stakeholders and rigorous brainstorming by the NatureNews editorial team.