This Day (Lagos)
23 November 2008
No fewer than 35 million people located in about 10 states in northern Nigeria are facing threats of hunger and extreme weather conditions due to desert encroachment on arable lands and grazing fields.
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this issue of desertification i beilieve is a man made influensed take for example borno state were trees are be cut indiscrimently without any law enforced to checkmate this mence,atleast if it could be possible to make it mandatory that if one tree is cut two should be planted,that will help in controlling desertification.