Nigeria: Desert Encroachment - 40 Million Nigerians in 15 Northern States in Poverty, Conflict - Govt

The Ministry of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar has said Nigeria is faced with rapid desert encroachment affecting about 15 northern states with over 40 million people.

He said in Nigeria, the problem continued to degrade land resources which provide livelihoods to majority of the rural populace with the ugly consequences of resource use conflicts, hunger, social vices and abject poverty in the affected areas.

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