EDUCATION

Generally speaking, women are portrayed as home makers, centre of the family and the main custodians of cultural and fundamental values of a society. Women from immemorial time have been saddled with many family responsibilities and are traditionally assigned with many roles, including custody of children, maintenance of the home feeding of family and preservation of family health. The modern day woman, who is expected to be a wife, then a mother, is also expected to play the role of a dutiful homemaker. Community development is not possible without their understanding, corporation and effective participation.

This is the case of environment pollution, environment pollution can be defined as the whole complex of physical, social, cultural, economic and aesthetic factors which affect individual and communities and ultimately determine their form, character, relationship and survival. However environment can also be defined as a surroundings, especially, material and spiritual influences which affect the growth, development and existence of a living being. Since June 1972 when the United Nations made a declaration on the human environment at Stockholm, the international community has appreciated environmental right. By 1992 at the Rio De Janeiro Conference the full import of a healthy environment as on issue of classification of human right gained ground on a global pedestal. Human right driven has remained a good idea of civilization, everywhere acknowledge as good. It’s classes are diverse and still emerging. In relation to rights generally, environmental rights are posited to belong to the third generations of right. Interestingly, all generations of right are seen to be interconnected, interrelated, inter-dependent indivisible, inalienable and fundamental. It must then be a paradoxical world we live in for man to be free and happy when his environment is abused and degraded. When the quality of air he breathes is fouled and unhealthy. The water he drinks is impure and contaminated by chemicals, toxic and hazardous substances that decrease its volume and quality daily. The food he eats is contaminated with toxic, hazardous and carcinogenic substances. Above all, he is every day confronted with the threat of environmentally-related diseases among other things. This is the picture of the world in which humankind by its self-induced activities especially in the oil and gas industry has undertaken a voyage of self-destruction of the environment in the guise of development and the sourcing of energy. Having seen that, environmental pollution has a lot of effect on my community which led to oil pit decades in the following:-