 The environmental rights action Friends of the Earth, Nigeria has called on the federal government to develop a 10-year ecosystem restoration roadmap for Nigeria. The executive director, Dr. Godwin Uyojo, made the call in Benin in a lecture titled Environmental Emergency for Ecosystem Restoration to Mark 2021 World Environmental Day. He said restoring the ecosystem would protect and improve the livelihood of millions of people and maintain the earth's biological diversity. He also called on governments at all levels to declare a state of environmental emergency for ecosystem restoration. Uyojo said the roadmap and state of emergency have become so necessary in order to raise awareness and restore living in harmony with nature. We call on the federal government to stop forthwith the exploitation or exploration of oil in the gongola basin or anywhere else because these are part of the destructive elements that is destroying the ecosystem. We employ the government to move towards a post-petroleum economy, an economy that is devoid of destroying ecosystems. We ask the government to intensify the effort to transit to renewable energy sources that involve energy democracy where you and I will be involved in the production and supply of energy systems through solar. As far as the state is concerned, the ecosystem is a misnomer for now and it has been degraded and every one of us have to play our part. You cannot see that we are part of the web. We are the human beings. We have the other parts of the ecosystem. The human being has the major role to make sure that things are put in place. So my stand is that the action should start now. Under the war against the Ecosystem Restoration, that there were no trees anymore. That the plants were gone. That the fruits were gone. They decreased. You must plant trees outside your building. I actually thought that it was not possible to plant on that land anymore. But in less than a month, trees were springing up. Plants were springing up. What I'm making is that the wheel of government. So we say it was a military administration. That's neither here nor there. The civilian democratic dispensation has a tool that no military government can ever have.