Monthly Archives: September, 2014

Ebola: Liberia censors press

With the Ebola epidemic predicted to get worse, the Liberian government has taken action to silence news outlets critical of its handling of the health crisis...

Tony Elumelu: Heirs Holdings will generate a quarter of Nigeria’s power needs

Global business leader and chairman of Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, has said that the group “has the ambition to generate at least a quarter...

Sharks, manta rays receive UN protection

Five species of sharks and two manta ray species on Sunday, September 14 received protection under the United Nation’s Convention on International Trade in...

Empowering Delta women with ‘clean’ eco-stoves (in photos)

A collaboration involving the Climate Change Department of the Delta State Ministry of Environment, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and EcoBank, under the state's...

Ebola in Nigeria (TV Report)

Nigeria may be containing the spread of the Ebola Virus disease. But, how effectively are the borders being policed to prevent further entry to infected...

African Water Facility allocates funds for climate change

The African Water Facility (AWF) has allocated €16m to fund for proposals for the “Preparation of Water and Climate Change Investment Projects”. In a statement, the AWF...

Ebola: Nigeria takes handwash campaign to motor parks

The Federal Ministry of Water Resources in collaboration with the National Task Group on Sanitation (NTGS) and the WASH Sector Emergency Response Group have...

Davido nominated for MTV awards

 Multiple awards winning artiste, Davido, (real name - David Adeleke) has been nominated by the MTV European Music Awards (EMA), for the Best African...

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Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming...
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African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts and representatives of civil society, adopted the Addis Ababa Declaration...

How agriculture restored peace between farmers, pastoralists in Plateau

In nearly every community I have worked in across Plateau State, I have heard some version of the same...

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Deforestation lowers threshold for Amazon degradation to below 2°C warming – Study

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into...

African actors adopt Addis Ababa Declaration, call for transformative action for SDGs, Agenda 2063

African stakeholders, including ministers, senior officials, experts and experts...