Yadai, a village in Kano state of Nigeria, always have sand been blown around by the hot wind, as such production of crops like millet, beans, and peanuts have been cut to a bearest minimum and people from the village do migrate to other towns for survival. At present this is history in the city of Yadai,there is a green shop situated in the heart of Yadai, where youths of the village do go to seek advice and knowledge about global issues affecting them; a whole lot of trees has been planted in Yadai, and the Greenback Nigeria project in collaboration with UNEP has constructed a solar plant in Yadai to generate 5,000megawatts of electricity.

Mr Abubakar, is a social worker, is working on effective groundnut production in the Northern Nigeria, he walks over 50km to get an internet connection to do research, but with the Greenshop in place, he can quickly access the internet, get a green tea at the shop to drink, then discuss global issues with the teeming youth population in within the community.

Adelight Nigeria Limited started manufacturing low-energy light bulbs six years ago; at its inception, the company has basically 100 wholesale distributors, and its return over investment was at negative. The company got a leap from the Greenback Nigeria website which helps in promoting environmentally friendly products to be purchased, thus creating an increase in demand for its low-energy light bulbs after the companies bulb was listed on the eco-friendly products segment of the website.

A whole lot too can be said about Viceze Couture that is interested in using environmental fabrics in producing its clothing.It was tagged has the most environmental friendly fashion outfit in Nigeria on the Greenback Nigeria website, and since then its customer base has increased tremendously.

The Northern part of Nigeria have woken up to the issue of environmental sustainability with over 200 schools taking part in the Greenback club program, 300 schools has been admitted into the Greenback Nigeria project. The Greenback Nigeria website has over 10million Nigerians signed up as members. The Earthwalk that was held was supported by corporate organizations with 1million Nigerians taking part.

Moreover there are now about 20 greenshops spread around the northern part of Nigeria, with over 200,000 been trained in vocational skills and ICT applications,50,000 visitors have used the resource center of these green shops and are pretty satisfied with the level of services been offered at the greenshop.

Since Greenback Nigeria website has started rating organizations on there level of awareness about a sustainable environment culture (environmental impact auditing), a number of organizations have started showing interest in the environment; however, Greenback Nigeria still reiterates its commitment towards visiting organizations (private or public) to ascertain how much they do intimate their workers on making the environment sustainable.