World inhabitants would have been extinct long ago, but for the divine wisdom of procreation through the established institution of marriage! Past and present environmental/ecological, disasters which have devastated all countries, from coast to coast and had not ceased from threatening everyone from day to day, support this assertion. Explorers, navigators and scientists over the centuries have successfully proved that the world is a global planet made up of continents and a mass of waters inform of oceans, lakes and lagoons; but could neither establish nor authoritatively disclose how the hidden CONTENTS IN THE EARTH'S CRUST have turned out to become the "bane" of God's creations!
Past and recent natural disasters across the world have proved that "the contents in the belly of the earth" cannot be tamed by ecologists, environmentalists or scientists because their potent activities are beyond human comprehension.
According to Biblical records, the entire global land mass was covered up with waters during creation, until GOD said:
"Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear, and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called the Seas and God saw that it was good. (Genesis.1:9-10).
Though, the world witnessed all forms of collateral damages through territorial ambitions of some self-acclaimed world powers, the worst types constantly occurred through the Earth and the Seas, which complement each other in unstoppable chain of disasters across all nations!
From the crust of the Earth flow the natural disasters of EARTH TREMORS (precursorto ) EARTHQUAKES, LAND SLIDES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; while the depth of the Seas, belch forth, FLOODINGS, TYPHOONS AND TSUNAMIES, all combined to consume world's inhabitants!
Scientists who claimed that underground vibrations normally led to violent shaking of the earth's surface which triggered magma, hot liquid rock found below the surface of the earth to suddenly release energy in the earth's crust that creates seismic waves to explode and destroy lives and properties round-about, have also proved that certain regions of the earth - especially Asian countries of Japan, and China, visited by violent typhoon this September, and most Caribbean Islands - are more prone to natural disasters than others; but that no region was immune!

Nigeria's Record of Earth Tremors.
When earth tremors occurred in quick succession recently in JABA Local Government Area of Nigeria, most Nigerians were shocked to the marrow because they were ignorant that the nation had a record of several frightening earth tremors of the past, which further confirmed the position of the scientists that volcanoes could erupt even from seemingly idle mountains and Nigeria has many of them - including that of neighboring Mount Cameroon which molten and destructive lava always caused havoc in close-by Nigerian villages!

Oyo State - 2016. In June 2016, residents of SAKI, a peaceful community in Oke Ogunarea of Ibadan in Oyo State, experienced recurrent earth tremors that took the day-light from them and registered permanent fear on all and sundry. Eye witnesses said all houses in the area were shaken to foundation but that it had been an intermittent occurrences since April 2016 and majority of the residents have departed to "safer “areas!

Kaduna State - 2016. Also between 10th and 11th September, 2016, residents of Sambang Dagi in Jaba Local Government of Kaduna State, experienced an earth tremor barely 24 hours after the first which occurred at Nok Village about 20 kilometers from Sambang.

According to The News Agency of Nigeria, the second vibration occurred around 4am Monday, leaving shocked residents scampering for safety without recorded casualties; but according to official procedure, the State Governor pacified the residents and informed, "Relevant authorities"!

Previous Records of Earth Tremors in Nigeria.
The records which show that Nigeria had experienced earth tremors in 1933,1939,1964, 1984, 1990, 1994 1997, 2000, and 2009, have never been disputed but there had not been strong evidence that consecutive administrations placed much emphasis on scientific geographic research to unravel the myth behind those occurrences!
Even the recurrent challenge of flooding, which had become perennial over the years, was treated with kid gloves until very recently in 2012, when the worst kind of flood disaster hit the nation!
There was a Nigerian Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other Geological Agencies, which were exposed to inadequacies, insufficiency, and inefficiencies when terrible losses were recorded in 2012 and again in 2015! Delay in putting in place, all necessary strategic and preventive measures, had always proved to be very dangerous in ecological or environmental management of flooding/typhoons or earth tremors/earthquakes because whenever they had fulfilled full circle of maturity to explode, they become very disastrous, devastating and unstoppable in their rage to destroy anything or anybody in their path! Up till date, there was no record of a full-blown earthquake disaster in Nigeria but that should not make our Ivory Tower scientists and researchers to go to sleep because the evil day might not be far off! We are very much aware that natural disasters cannot be prevented from occurring but adequate and strategic preparations could be put into position to avoid massive loss of lives and properties because as it takes up to, (or) over a century for an earthquake to become full-blown; so should the full advantage of such lengthy period of incubation of looming disaster not be used to put all requisite palliatives in position to reduce casualties?

Nigeria Should Adopt Japan's Strategy Of Confronting Natural Disasters!
The Far East country of Japan, though notorious for natural disasters of earthquakes and volcanoes, still found its rank among the Asian Tigers which occupy the topmost positions among the 20 most economically viable countries of the world.
In 1923, ten years before Nigeria's first experience of an earth tremor, Japan had its most devastating earthquake in which 100.000 persons died and though- each year since then, - countless of earthquakes still occurred, - they remained on their toes to avoid casualties or reduce them to barest minimum!
Japanese geophysical scientists at the Mt. Sarakujima Volcanic Centre, with the support of their British counterpart have detected an accelerated build up of magma inside Mount.Sakurajima after a new research, that a 1914 eruption might re-occur in2031 and have
disclosed that the eruption would pose a significant threat to a neighboring city ofKagoshima! Twenty- five years may seem far but a timely warning of this type will serves a good opportunity to put all safety gadgets in place and avoid any form of causality.
Nigeria's first experience of tremor was 83 years ago, (1933), and therefore, was high time that its geophicisical scientists and researchers awaken from inactivity, or sloveness to save the nation from an impending national disaster of multiple and devastating full-blown earthquakes of high magnitudes that would be worse than all insurgency, terrorism or militancy acts put together!

There Is Always A Way Out!
The new Change APC Administration should declare national emergency on environmental matters and deploy with immediate effect all serious-minded and patriotic scientists to all sites (old and new), of earth tremors since1933, with modern equipments to identify most susceptible areas where full-blown earthquakes could occur and take advantage of early warning to put strategic plans of safe evacuation of people and their movable properties away from such prone areas -years before the disasters occurred!
WE BELIEVE THAT THIS GENUINE TEAM OF PRESIDENT BUHARI WOULD DOTHE NEEDFUL IN JESUS CHRIST'S NAME!


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

The past earthquakes ( corruption ) that almost ruined the whole country is yet to unravel its aftermath effect in the lives of Nigerians. I pray Nigeria does not experience another earthquake ( this time around we wouldn't be able to control but manage ) even though the earlier earthquakes ( corruption ) were controllable but we failed blatantly to control them.