Monthly Archives: December, 2016

Activists lend credence to UN expert’s view on Lagos water policy

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has commended the recent statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights...

Coal in commercial quantity discovered in Sokoto

Coal deposit in commercial quantity has been discovered in Sokoto State, a development observers describe as a boost to the Federal Government efforts to...

EnviroNews launches mobile app

Leading online environment and development magazine, EnviroNews Nigeria, has launched an Android version of its mobile app. The mobile app makes it easy and convenient...

Shell campaigns against crude oil theft in Ogoniland

A campaign against crude oil theft mounted this year by The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) has highlighted the dangers of...

UN expert questions Lagos government’s policy on water

A United Nations expert has urged the authorities in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, to ensure the 2017 budget improves funding for water and sanitation...

Challenges of waste disposal in Lagos this Yuletide

  Radio reports archives The success of a  festival is not only measured by the number of people that participated in it and the volume...

Obama bans oil drilling in parts of Atlantic, Arctic oceans

President Barack Obama of the United States on Tuesday, December 20 2016, moved to solidify his environmental legacy by withdrawing hundreds of millions of...

How firms boosted COP22

The Public Private Partnership (PPP) Pole, of the Steering Committee for the 22nd session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22),...

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Nigeria committed to sustainability of biosphere reserves, ecological research – FRIN DG

Director-General, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Prof. Zacharia Yaduma, says Nigeria is strengthening policy and legal frameworks to...
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Türkiye moves to ban single-use plastics, releases 11.6m barrels of crude from reserves

Türkiye has decided to phase out single-use plastics in line with the European Union’s acquis, aiming to further contribute...

‘Wash water’ used when recycling plastics may warrant closer scrutiny – Study

Recycling is one answer to the growth in plastic waste but treating “wash water” used to clean recycled plastic...

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Nigeria committed to sustainability of biosphere reserves, ecological research – FRIN DG

Director-General, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Prof. Zacharia...

Türkiye moves to ban single-use plastics, releases 11.6m barrels of crude from reserves

Türkiye has decided to phase out single-use plastics in...