Dr Joseph Odumosu, Director-General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON)

Energy efficiency: UNDP, GEF, SON set refrigerating appliances standard

Minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) for refrigerating appliances emerged last week in Lagos as the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) rallied a team of specialists to explore and adapt the...

A flooded street at the Okun Alfa community

‘The ocean can consume us, yet we can’t help ourselves’

msimire // Jul 23rd, 2014 // 298 views

Okun Alfa in Eti Osa Local Government Area of Lagos lives on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean....

Gulf of Guinea countries face environmental security challenge

msimire // Jul 22nd, 2014 // 321 views

Environmental security remains a challenge in the Gulf of Guinea and needs a sustained, robust...

Why Nigeria does not need genetically modified foods

msimire // Jul 21st, 2014 // 563 views

In a recent edition of “Fact Sheet,” a publication of the ecological think-tank, Health...

How government killed Nigeria’s cocoa industry

msimire // Jul 20th, 2014 // 498 views

Our cocoa industry has the potential to employ millions of Nigerians and also create economic...

Science & Tech

Gas flare-out: Mallam commends Total’s commitment

msimire // May 30th, 2014 // 386 views

Mallam Minister of Environment, Laurentia Laraba Mallam, has commended French oil and gas giant, Total, over its determination to be the first multinational oil corporation to stop offshore...

‘How GM foods advocates promote poverty, dependency in Africa’

msimire // Jul 27th, 2014

The recent article, GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty, published in the Guardian’s PovertyMatters Blog on 21 July 2014, is a thinly veiled attack on those of...

‘Nigeria sits on environmental health time bomb’

msimire // Jul 20th, 2014

Just when Nigerians are counting on the possibility that Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, will be counted among the best cities of the world, facts about how well-planned cities are rated...

Laureates on Gaza: They’re also our children

msimire // Jul 27th, 2014

Declaration by Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award on Gaza: As recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, popularly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize“, we strongly condemn the killing...

OPIC extends length of Agbara Estate road to 50km

msimire // Jul 17th, 2014 // 243 views

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State The targeted 10.8 kilometers road re-construction that commenced barely six months ago and is nearing completion at the Ogun State Property and Investment...

Essential biological diversity roles recognised in SDGs

msimire // Jul 27th, 2014

Biological diversity and ecosystems last week featured prominently in the proposal of a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals...

Shell urged to resolve Bonga oil spill crisis

msimire // Jul 27th, 2014

Bothered about the protracted crisis over the Bonga Oil Spillage in the Niger Delta region, Minister of Environment, Laurentia Laraba Mallam, has given a marching order to Shell Petroleum Development...

Climate change: Tackling poverty, ignorance

msimire // Jul 22nd, 2014

Ignorance could often be considered a significant factor of influence in the wise of the low-level perception of climate change among the common people of the developing world, but a more...