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Climate Change: A Nigerian Narrative by Tolulope Ajobiewe

In commemoration of the coming World Environment Day, here's an article by 'Tolu Ajobiewe Climate Change: A Nigerian Narrative Writers, story tellers, singers, researchers and analysts have provided in recent times tales and accounts of climate change, bearing and bringing forward facts, assumptions, opinions, predictions and projections of the unseen tomorrow as much as climate change is concerned. This narrative however, draws from the stream of knowledge and pool of facts provided hitherto. But before proceeding with my tale on climate change: the Nigerian perspective, allow me woo you with these descriptions. Climate change refers to an increase in average global temperatures. Wikipedia described climate change as a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e. decades to millions of years). In other words, climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time va