A Non-governmental organisation, Clean Up Nigeria, has rated Rivers State as the sixth cleanest state in the country.
The group in its ratings said Akwa Ibom emerged the cleanest state in Nigeria followed by Ebonyi in second place, while Kogi was placed last on the list.
National Coordinator of the group, Ene Baba-Owo said the results were the outcome of a national technical study group on the state of the Nigerian Environment Report 2020.
“the study was scored on five performance indicators via physical verification 20 per cent and the deployment of GEO-Eye-1 satellite that has the highest resolution imagery system in the world which collected images with a ground resolution of 0.41 meters,” he said.
