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Group rejects FG EU’s ploy to turn Nigeria to toxic waste dumpsites




The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), a non-governmental organization, has decried alleged proposal by the European Union (EU) to include Nigeria in the list of countries for which non-hazardous waste for recovery is authorised and dumped

This is as HOMEF alleged that Nigeria and other African Countries had become dumpsites for thousands of obsolete and unusable computers and other e-waste.




“Major sources of these e-waste include China, the United States, Spain, the United Kingdom, the UAE, and Morocco”, the Group noted.







“We see the “Request for Inclusion in the List of Countries to Which the Export from the European Union of Non-Hazardous Wastes and Mixtures of Non-Hazardous Wastes Destined for Recovery is Authorised” as a ploy to woo countries like Nigeria into obnoxious systemic legal waste colonialism.




“Nigeria is already plagued with environmental pollution arising from oil and gas exploitation, pollution arising from the exploitation of solid minerals, plastic pollution, and genetic pollution in foods.

For a country already almost overwhelmed by these issues, seeking approval to import waste of any kind is not only ill-advised but also ecocidal and dangerous”, it added.







Speaking further, Nnimmo Bassey, HOMEF’s executive director, said, “This move exposes the government’s willingness to discount the wellbeing of citizens for a mess of porridge,




“It is inconceivable that a nation with life expectancy of about 56 years and a broken healthcare delivery system would succumb to the level of begging to import someone else’s waste, when we can hardly handle our domestic wastes,”

HOMEF, as well as other well-meaning Nigerians, reject the Nigerian Government’s plot to allow other countries and regions to use Nigeria or any other African nation as dumpsites for waste products from their conspicuous consumption.




The Group further stated that even wastes certified as non-hazardous are often hazardous – containing traces of heavy metals and other dangerous elements. “We denounce the ploy, under any guise, to import any form of waste to Nigeria”.

Noting that rich countries commodify waste and make it appeal to the appetites of poorer countries that are seeking foreign exchange by all means, they said that was why the EU could report that €18.5 billion worth of EU waste was exported in 2023.




“What the impacts of those wastes have been and will continue to be in the countries where they were exported is a question that the trade merchants will never answer” HOMEF said.




The EU seem to align with the assertion of Lawrence Summers, World Bank Chief Economist in 1991, who wrote that Africa is hugely under polluted and that it makes economic sense to dump wastes here.







In his memo, he said, “Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank encourage more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Least Developed Countries]? A given amount of health-impairing pollution should be done




in the country with the lowest cost and the country with the lowest wages. I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable, and we should face up to that.

In a world that is in the grip of extreme geopolitical distortions, the shameful truth is that the high consumption nations are happy to offload their wastes on zones regarded as suitable for nothing except to be sacrificed as refuse dumps.

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iamnotillicit:
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OChimex:
Poor sick thing, go find food chop. Before coming to talk on investment topics.

I don't deal with poor village kids

A a dull human will be outside the country n thinks it end there, if u like no build house for ng or buy land. When that white woman tire with u, na ur poor friend place u go dey sleep.


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OChimex:
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OChimex:
Poor sick thing.
See food chop first
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OChimex:
You sound like an idiot.
First of all, argue with numbers and statistics not sentiments.
Do you have 500k in your account now? Have you lived abroad?
You will only understand when you do...

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OChimex:
It's bad investment to work in America and use the dollar you make here to buy properties in nigeria in the name of investments. I don't mind people building nice homes back home for their occupancy.
I agree to that if you want to relocate permanently, soon. And stay back in nigeria. But if not, that's a bad investment
Let me explain mathematically...
2020, $1=365, you sent home $10k to buy land. Thats 3.65 million Naira. 2025, 5 years later, the land aporeciated to 10 million naira.
Now convert the 10 million back to dollar, that's $6.6k
Your $10k is now worth $6.6k.

Smh for u, u talk like who dey tie for village.

People who are wealthy don't only invest in their country they invest outside wat stops u who lives outside to invest in ur country.

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Wealthoptulent:
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Many people are working a$$ out and killing their health to make money to buy properties in Nigeria, where u spend jus 1 month or max 2 all year round and u stressing ursef here rest of MONTH to make money and Send to where you don't LEAVE, a QUICK QUESTION; are your Children u raising here interested in going back to 9ja to inherit when you are GONE?
NO! They become like BADNOCH who has nothing to do with that country, wasn't born there or Raised there!

One can INVEST here, yes you can't pass to your wards to inherit tho (Direct inheritance is not automatic unlike Nigeria, becos they have to pay Inheritance Tax like £50k - £100k) but there are better ways to leave PROPERTIES to your wards, which is "TRUST" ( it's a wisdom profitable way, by opening a company and purchase properties , it saves u from partner who also want to part away with your properties and any of your lineage will be in charge of these properties with out the pay of INHERITANCETAX ).

PROPERTIES accumulation in NIGERIA os not a WISE MOVE, it's not an INVESTMENT at all (can u change the money to abroad denom and spend monthly where u stay ? no

WHAT'S THE POINT?

Travelling right now is more like business, I gat friends who come back 1ce or twice a yr to chk their investment.

If u sell land n japa n u buy land again u have gained, u will still build n buy more na something carry u go there. Jeez

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