Monthly Archives: September, 2015

Water & Sanitation

Groups seek end to planned water privatisation in Ogun

Plans by the Ogun State government to privatise water through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model promoted by the World Bank is a recipe...
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Water & Sanitation

Acid rain threatens life in Uganda

Every time it rains, Barbra Nyawiza, a teacher at Ngaara Primary School in Mbarara district, gets reactions. She sneezes and snoots. Scientists believe this primary...
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Benue asks Dangote Cement to be environment friendly

The Benue State House of Assembly has called on Dangote Cement Company in Gboko, Benue State, to own up to her Corporate Social Responsibility...
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Sustainable Devpt

SDGs will only succeed if successful in Africa

September 2015 saw the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This has been a long journey for many. To highlight the challenges and...
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Agric & Biotech

Achieving long-term solution to forest fire and haze in Indonesia

Fifty years ago, Indonesia was rich with pristine forest. And then – boom! Between 1980 and 2000 – a timber logging boom. Illegal logging followed –...
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Agric & Biotech

Biopalm: Cameroon communities left in the dark

For the last two months, the Bantu and Bagyeli communities of Bella have watched as workers from a forestry company have entered their territory...
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Health

ERA/FoEN, 40 others back Kenya over BAT litigation

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) and about 40 other organisations from across Africa and around the world have submitted a...
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Climate Change

Group demands climate justice for women

The Women Environmental Programme (WEP) has called on the Federal Government to ensure climate justice for women by implementing policies and programmes that increase...
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Countries pledge $3.9bn to GEF towards ambitious ninth replenishment

Donor countries have pledged an initial $3.9 billion to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for its ninth replenishment cycle,...
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Human Welfare

NEPL/Seplat JV commissions STEAM laboratories in Edo schools, advocates sustainability

The NNPC Exploration and Production Limited (NEPL)/Seplat Energy Joint Venture has commissioned two Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics...
Conservation

In Oyo, battle for forests shifts from reserves to classrooms, communities

No doubt, climate change is intensifying; urban expansion is steadily consuming green spaces while insecurity is creeping further into...

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Countries pledge $3.9bn to GEF towards ambitious ninth replenishment

Donor countries have pledged an initial $3.9 billion to...
Human Welfare

NEPL/Seplat JV commissions STEAM laboratories in Edo schools, advocates sustainability

The NNPC Exploration and Production Limited (NEPL)/Seplat Energy Joint...