Nigeria Climate Watch
Independent nonprofit newsroom advancing environmental and climate accountability while supporting a more resilient Nigeria.
When Roads Meet Rainforests: Nigeria’s Coastal Highway and the Climate Cost of Development
A development promise cuts through a living climate asset Nigeria’s plan to build the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway is framed as a statement of ambition. Stretching along the country’s southern coastline, the proposed road is designed to improve transport [...]
Greenhouse Gases, Growing Illness: How Nigeria’s Emissions Are Becoming a Public Health Crisis
On a humid Monday in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal government framed climate change in terms Nigerians increasingly recognise not as distant environmental risk but as a mounting health emergency. Speaking at a stakeholder engagement on the National Emergency Response [...]
From Creek to Courtroom: Nigeria’s Wildlife War, Pangolins, and the Slow Turn of the Law
A Night Interception in the Creeks Just after nightfall on 15 January 2026, operatives of the Federal Operations Unit Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service were patrolling the narrow waterways around Ajilete, a quiet creek community in [...]