[Stoves] News: Nigeria records 65, 000 deaths annually due to air pollution – Saraki

[Nikhil Desai]

A thoroughly untenable statement in the headline. Nigeria records 65, 000
deaths annually due to air pollution – Saraki
<http://thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-deaths-pollution-saraki/> The Nation
(Nigeria) 28 October 2017

The text has a half-way appropriate line - "In Nigeria, household air
pollution is the third most significant risk factor for health after
malaria and HIV/Aids, killing almost 65, 000 people every year – more than
half of whom are children."

If a Nigeria Burden of Disease study has been completed. If the numbers are
borrowed from WHO "data", they are spurious.

The environment minister is hopeful that "the new gas policy would reduce
the trend of deforestation, usage of fuel woods and promote clean energy."

"Reduce the trend of deforestation" may depend on other aspects of land and
forest policy, from ownership and sale to non-cooking use of felled wood.

Nikhil
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