- Author(s): Bell-Gam, R. Soprinye, Ezimah, M. O. A. PhD and Eheazu, C. L. PhD
- Volume 10, June 2021
This study investigated environmental adult education programmes as strategies for combating the effects of illicit oil activities in selected LGAs in Rivers State, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised 2,592 members of community based organisations in the study area. While the sample was 1151 respondents selected through purposive and random sampling techniques. Data were analysed
through mean, standard deviation and rank order. Findings revealed that the causes of illicit oil activities in the study area were greed, ignorance, high rate of unemployment, and poverty, the quest to get rich quick and so on; that environmental adult education programmes such as conservative education, environmental literacy, climate change education programmes and so on, were
effective strategies for combating illicit oil activities in the study area. The study concluded that it is imperative to vigorously pursue environmental adult education programmes as viable tool in addressing the challenges of illicit oil activities in the study area. The study recommended that the government should adequately fund environmental adult education programmes to increase people’s
knowledge on the dangers of illicit oil activities.