Stakeholders seek logging ban to boost reforestation in northeastern Nigeria Some stakeholders in the environment sector have urged state governments in Nigeria's northeastern region to boost the ban on illegal felling of trees to enhance reforestation and check desert encroachment. The stakeholders who spoke in Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa and Yobe, said the measure was imperative to check spate of forest depletion and protect about 10 million trees planted by the states in the last three years. The states are among the 11 desert prone areas alongside Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto...