23.6 C
Lagos
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Monthly Archives: September, 2017

Advocacy for liveable cities in Nigeria

“Our goal has always been to deliver a clean, safe and prosperous Lagos…We love the criticism that Lagos is the second least liveable city...

More firms commit to 100% clean energy

Global financial institutions Citi and JPMorgan Chase & Co. on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at the Climate Week NYC 2017 in New York joined The Climate Group’s RE100 campaign with CDP, committing to source...

Climate change: Why no one is safe

I was commuting from Ojota to Obalende a fortnight ago, in one of the big red buses used in Lagos when, perhaps taking a...

NBMA restates commitment to ensuring safety of GMOs

The Director General/CEO, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba, has assured Nigerians that the Agency will continue to ensure that any genetically-modified...

Africa’ll become food basket of the world, says Dangote at UN Assembly

Nigerian business leader Aliko Dangote told investors that going by its prowess in agriculture, Africa has the potential to become the food basket of...

Court asked to declare permits for GM cotton, maize illegal

Seventeen non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have jointly dragged the Federal Government before an Abuja Federal High Court, over permits allegedly issued by the National Biosafety...

Clean energy: Ending tax breaks after diesel scandal

In response to the diesel scandal, the diesel tax advantage should be completely abandoned within the European Union (EU), according to the Potsdam Institute...

Forum to explore indigenous people’s land rights as tool to protect forest

As concern mounts that the world will fail to meet its targets to reduce carbon emissions, the Swedish government, the Ford Foundation and other funders will...

Latest news

Heat waves put older persons at high risk, warns UN report

As extreme heat grips many countries and becomes “the new normal”, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns of heightened...
- Advertisement -spot_imgspot_img

Renaissance Energy, Bayelsa host communities to conserve Apoi Creek Forest Reserves

Renaissance Africa Energy Company and hosts to its South Swamp Gas Gathering Solution (SSGGS) project have commenced plans to...

CSOs seek restructure of Nigeria’s climate change response system

Some civil society organisations in the Niger Delta have called for the decentralisation of Nigeria’s climate change response structure. The...

Must read

Heat waves put older persons at high risk, warns UN report

As extreme heat grips many countries and becomes “the...

Renaissance Energy, Bayelsa host communities to conserve Apoi Creek Forest Reserves

Renaissance Africa Energy Company and hosts to its South...
×