Abayomi Odewale

Civil Engineer, Writer, and Lecturer in Kaduna, Nigeria

Abayomi Odewale

Civil Engineer, Writer, and Lecturer in Kaduna, Nigeria

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Abayomi is a Civil Engineering graduate (B.Sc), Climate Tracker activist and 2017 UN Foundation – International Centre For Journalists (ICFJ) Climate Reporting and Migration Fellow.

Since 2015, he has been enlightening Nigerians and pressurising Nigerian government on the need to phase out dangerous fossil fuels and embrace just transition to total friendly renewable energy sources — through climate and environmental related articles (via International/Local media), contributing his ideas — such as his active participation in the Nigeria's Break Free Journalism Campaign; towards keeping fossil fuels in the ground, held in May 2016.

Efforts of the Nigerian government and the neigboring countries to resuscitate the shrinking Lake Chad basin, plans to diversify the power sector and increased fines against gas flaring are a few success recorded through his advocacies.

As an acknowledged Nigerian climate writer through ICFJ– UN Foundation Fellowship on Climate Reporting and Migration, Abayomi investigated and published unreported climate change and migration issues in Nigeria — towards bringing them to the fore for holistic solution.

Here are the links to a few of his environmental articles:

<https://peacechild.org/reasons-stop-using-fossil-fuels/>

<http://www.environewsnigeria.com/climate-change-triggers-migration-northeast-nigeria/>

<http://www.environewsnigeria.com/forceful-ejection-homes-panacea-lagos-flooding/>