Yearly Archives: 2017

Conservation

World Giraffe Day: Saving the Masai giraffe in East Africa

The Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF) dedicated the year's World Giraffe Day (observed on Wednesday, June 21, 2017) to saving Masai giraffe in Kenya and Tanzania. Giraffe...

admin - June 23, 2017

Business

Federal varsity reviews government’s economic recovery plan

Over the last years the Nigerian economy has been in doldrums, leaving behind tales of inflation, unemployment, poverty and the likes. To stem the...

admin - June 23, 2017

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Montréal Declaration: 140 mayors express commitment to Paris goals

One hundred and forty mayors of the world’s largest cities have expressed their commitment implement the Paris Climate Change Agreement at a meeting in...

admin - June 23, 2017

Climate Change

GCF: Climate fund pay-out progresses

The disbursement of Green Climate Fund (GCF) financing is picking up pace, following a major focus of the Fund this year on implementing approved...

admin - June 23, 2017

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Otodo Gbame: Evictions cruel, inhuman, degrading, court rules

With hundreds of anxious poor, urban residents – men, women, and children – from waterfronts across Lagos State waiting inside and outside the High...

admin - June 22, 2017

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Rainforests are at risk, warn faith leaders

Participants of the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative held on Wednesday June 21, 2017 in Oslo, Norway fear that rainforests are at grave risk. In a statement...

admin - June 22, 2017

Real Estate

Deficit: CBN, NHFP launch housing finance scheme

The dream of many Nigerians across all strata of the economy to own their own homes is at the verge of becoming a reality. This...

admin - June 22, 2017

Health

WHO launches primary health care advisory group

Experts convened in Almaty, Kazakhstan, from Tuesday, June 20 to Wednesday, June 21, 2017 for the inaugural meeting of the Primary Health Care Advisory...

admin - June 22, 2017

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