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Government funds environmental projects

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    Nigeria’s government approved about 8.9 billion naira (US $78.5 million) on Tuesday for efforts to fight erosion, floods and other environmental problems that have continually battered the country, the Lagos-based ‘Guardian’ reported.

    The package includes 1.1 billion naira for a project to rehabilitate the Lagos shoreline, 404 million naira to combat drought and desertification, and funds for projects in the states of Benue, Katsina and Kwara. The government said it had already awarded another 2.4 billion naira (US $21.1 million) in contracts for 37 other ecological projects.

    Other proposed initiatives cover areas such as human waste and sewage disposal in prisons and the disposal of hazardous biological laboratory waste at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, the daily reported.

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