Monthly Archives: September, 2014

Ebola: NOA director stresses importance of high sanitary standard

Mr Oliver Wolugbom, Rivers State Director of the National Orientation Agency ( NOA), has stressed the need to  maintain  high sanitary standard in order...

Man, 42, jailed 12 months for stealing speaker from church

A 42-year-old man, Adebisi Oluranti, was sentenced to  12 months imprisonment by an Ibadan Magistrates’ Court on Friday for stealing musical instrument from a...

Nigerian Environment Centenary Symposium in photos

Nigeria came into being on January 1, 1914 with the formal amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates of the British Territory. The country...

Nigeria takes stock of a century of her environment

A two-day forum that explored environmental implications of 100 years of Nigeria’s existence came to a close on Thursday in Ibadan, Oyo State. The Nigerian...

Activists reject Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture

A team of civil society organisations is kicking against the proposed Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture, saying that it will not deliver the urgently-needed solutions...

New York summit: Rising to a climate challenge

The Climate Change Summit has come and gone. The Summit was able to galvanise international action on climate change. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, told...

Parties meet on the Safe Use of Living Modified Organisms

Delegates from around the world will on Monday converge on Pyeongchang in South Korea for the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties...

UN-Habitat designates October 2014 ‘Urban October’

With the launch of the first ever World Cities Day on October 31, 2014, The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has designated the...

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TotalEnergies strikes new oil discovery offshore Congo

Energy major, TotalEnergies, has announced a new hydrocarbon discovery on the Moho license offshore the Republic of Congo, marking...
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Almost half of European freshwater fishes at risk of extinction – IUCN

The updated European Red List of Freshwater Fishes – the most comprehensive assessment in 15 years – reveals little evidence of...

Ottmar Edenhofer re-elected Chair of EU climate advisory board

The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, which began its second four-year term at the end of March...

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TotalEnergies strikes new oil discovery offshore Congo

Energy major, TotalEnergies, has announced a new hydrocarbon discovery...

Almost half of European freshwater fishes at risk of extinction – IUCN

The updated European Red List of Freshwater Fishes – the most...