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Monthly Archives: November, 2016

Platform prescribes innovative solutions to Africa’s energy deficit

Experts at the UNFCCC’s 22nd Conference of Parties which began on Monday in Marrakech have proposed innovative approaches to solving the African energy challenge. Speaking at...

African CSOs demand ambitious action in Marrakech

African civil society organisations (CSOs) at the ongoing climate change negotiations have warned that if Parties do not urgently raise their pre-2020 ambitions in...

Climate change: Mixed reactions greet Donald Trump’s victory

As news of Donald Trump's victory in the US Presidential Election on Wednesday spread across the world and reached Marrakech, the Moroccan ancient city...

Government affirms confidence in controversial tobacco control committee

Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has reaffirmed his confidence on the members of the National Tobacco Control Committee (NATOCC), saying that they have...

Activists criticise Nigeria’s stand at tobacco COP

Nigeria's propositions at the ongoing Seventh Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco...

Africa urged to avoid being caught in ‘capacity building syndrome’

Africa should avoid the “Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) trap” by perpetually pushing capacity building and miss out on serious climate funding opportunities, Balgis Osman...

Action on water, climate needed for Paris goals, climate justice

Organised for the first time in the history of UN Climate Change Conferences (Conference of the Parties, or “COPs”), the Action Day for Water...

Images: Solar impacts health, businesses in rural Adamawa

An initiative aimed at expanding access of local communities to modern energy services (such as solar energy) under the Sustainable Energy for All (Se4All)...

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A greener path forward: Commending Ogun’s housing drive, calling for urban tree canopy

Nigerian Canadian environmentalist, Surajdeen Alabede, commends Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun for his outstanding commitment to affordable housing in Ogun...
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Dangote-NNPC alliance to redefine Nigeria’s energy security, deepen industrialisation – Ojulari

Strategic collaboration between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) and Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals has the potential...

Tobacco control researcher, Charity Aienobe-Asekharen, bags WHO, PhD awards

A health promotion expert, and researcher associate at the Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour (CLiMB), Dr. Charity Aienobe-Asekharen,...

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A greener path forward: Commending Ogun’s housing drive, calling for urban tree canopy

Nigerian Canadian environmentalist, Surajdeen Alabede, commends Governor Prince Dapo...

Dangote-NNPC alliance to redefine Nigeria’s energy security, deepen industrialisation – Ojulari

Strategic collaboration between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited...
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