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Waste Management

Healthcare waste from COVID threatens environment – WHO

Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the...
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Waste Management

Rainfall, poor waste management and growing pandemic

As the rain comes, floods take over our popular city centres and roads; garbage and other forms of waste dominate the surfaces of these...
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Waste Management

Poor waste management practice: Catalyst to COVID-19 spread

In Nigeria, wastes are dumped in open pits; flowing gully water, drainage channels and poorly managed landfills, which have become very rigorous to maintain,...
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Group boosts WASH access with solar-powered boreholes in Nasarawa communities

Society for Family Health (SFH), a non-govermental organisation, has enhanced Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) access in rural communities...
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Waste Management

LASEPA to strengthen e-waste compliance framework

The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency has stepped up efforts to address the growing challenge of electronic waste (e-waste),...
Conservation

Jason Momoa: Coral reefs are nearing extinction, 2026 must mark a turning point

Where I come from – Hawai’i – the reef isn’t just something you look at. It’s part of us....

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Water & Sanitation

Group boosts WASH access with solar-powered boreholes in Nasarawa communities

Society for Family Health (SFH), a non-govermental organisation, has...
Waste Management

LASEPA to strengthen e-waste compliance framework

The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency has stepped up...