Rainforest News: The Governor of Cross River State of Nigeria, Mr. Donald Duke, awarded thirty thousand hectares of pristine tropical rainforest to the Obasanjo farms, a company owned by the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. The company proceeded to clear fell the entire area and established a monocultural plantation of oil palms. They felled trees were salvaged by another company belonging to the the former Governor of Ekiti state, Mr Ayo Fayose, who exported all the fleeches from that endeavour….