Monthly Archives: May, 2019

Open defecation: Govt to provide public toilet facilities nationwide

In a bid to free Nigeria from the menace of open defecation, the Federal Government on Monday pledged to provide public toilet facilities across the nation. Mr...

Buhari told to reject bill incorporating extreme biotechnology in biosafety law

Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), the GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance and over 40 non-governmental organisations representing millions of Nigerians have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to...

The Abidjan Convention strategic role in ocean governance

A key principle of the USAID-funded West Africa Biodiversity Conservation (WA BiCC) Programme is to work in partnership with regional partner institutions to strengthen and enhance...

What national climate knowledge deepening initiative will achieve, by govt

Fresh moves to create awareness on climate change and building capacity of sub-national governments commenced last week in Enugu, where the first of a series of...

650m people will not have electricity access by 2030

There has been encouraging progress towards achieving universal access to electricity: 89% of the global population has access to electricity, compared to 1 billion in 2016...

Maida: Linking humanitarian assistance to development

The Maida programme is building livelihood and dismantling energy poverty in Borno State. Launched  in 2018 with financial support from the European Commission (EU), the programme...

Developing human capital for achieving sustainable investment, development

In March  2017 the then Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Patricia Espinosa Espinosa while speaking at the opening of the President of the General Assembly High...

How middlemen undermine Nigeria’s food security programme

Some stakeholders have decried activities of middlemen in the agricultural production, saying they are undermining the efforts of the Federal Government in the food value chain...

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Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed a bill prohibiting open defecation. The bill aims to outlaw open...
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Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an electronic system that will simplify the process of obtaining physical...

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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Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed...

Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an...