Question

write a news paper report on koko village Nigeria

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Answer 1

Koko, town and port, Delta state, southern Nigeria. It lies along the Benin River, in the western Niger River delta. A collecting point for palm oil and kernels as well as timber, it can be reached by vessels of 14-foot (4-metre) draft that navigate the 50-mile (80-kilometre) distance upstream to the port via the Escravos River entrance (opened 1940, on the Bight of Benin) and the Youngtown Crossing. Although its port was eclipsed by Sapele, 20 miles (32 km) upstream, the town still serves as an agricultural trade centre for the Itsekiri people. It was reopened as a port of entry in 1958, and in the late 1970s the government rehabilitated its berths and promoted a fishing and shrimping operation in the town. Koko is the administrative headquarters for the Warri North local government area. Pop. (latest est.) town, 19,994; (2006) local government area, 137,300.

Answer 2

In the mid 1980s, Italy could only process 20 percent of the toxic waste it generated. The rest it quietly sent abroad. Why not, when you could pay a poor African community to store your dangerous chemicals?

The small fishing village of Koko, Nigeria, made international headlines in 1988 when it was discovered that two Italian firms had arranged for the storage of 18,000 drums of hazardous waste with Koko residents. The containers were disguised as building materials and offloaded into a local man’s vacant yard for $100 per month.

By the time Nigerian authorities identified the scheme, the drums were leaking and people were getting sick.

Nigerian students in Italy learned about the waste dump in Koko and alerted the media. In May 1988, The Daily Times, a government-run Nigerian newspaper, traveled to the tiny port town to investigate. There, in a vacant residential lot, reporters found “over 2,000 drums, sacks, and containers,” some of which were “identified with the letter R (the international symbol indicating ‘toxic and harmful industrial waste’). Many have already burst and are emitting a very offensive odor in the area.”
The lot’s owner, Sunday Nana, confirmed that he had agreed to let foreign importers use his land. He had initially asked for $200 per month, but negotiations settled at $100. Four shipments had arrived since the previous year, and more were coming.

The Nigerian government was shocked. Immediately, it ordered an Italian ship docked in Lagos to be seized and detained. Italian authorities responded by insisting the chemicals deposited at Koko were not harmful but merely coal tars, paint waste, and industrial solvents. But an independent analysis of the material by a British environmental group determined that 28 percent of the waste contained polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), a combustible that could produce a highly toxic compound called dioxin.