By Amos Tauna
Following the adverse effect climate change has on humans, an expert in the field, Mohammed Zakari, has advocated the introduction of climate change in Nigerian schools for students to learn about it at the early stage to save the world from climatic related diseases.
He explained that climate change has forced the emergence of more Insect-Borne Diseases that are hard to control like Mosquitoes, Ebola, Bird Flu, Cholera, Parasites, Lyme disease, Sleeping sickness, Rift Valley fever, among others.
He was speaking at the one-day workshop organised by Network of Climate Journalists reporting in Africa in conjunction with Women Hood school of Health Science Kaduna, northern Nigeria, for students in the school, aimed at sensitizing them on impact of global warming and how they could contribute to reduce the problems affecting the environment.
The expert added that the effect of Climate Change if care is not taken, there would be more diseases in the future, that will become a threat to lives and little plant in the society.
Speaking at the workshop, Nurudeen Bello, a science lecturer at School of Health Science Makarfi, said the knowledge of climate education would create more opportunities for young people and how to adapt to any environmental and natural situation.
Nurudden said, ”Our aim is to teach students more about the causes of climate change and the various ways each one of them will contribute towards saving the environment against all forms of global warming, desertification and pollution.
“The world is going green and we must join the whole world so as to save ourselves and plant.”
Some of the student that attended the training expressed satisfaction and call on more of such training programmes to enable them learnt more about global warming and climate changes in their local communities.
