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Yearly Archives: 2017

Electric cars, solar panels threaten fossil fuel, says report

Falling costs of electric vehicles and solar panels could halt worldwide growth in demand for oil and coal by 2020, a new report has suggested. A scenario...

WWD17: Strengthening collaboration to reduce disaster risk

On Thursday, 02 February 2017, the world celebrated its wetlands – complex ecosystems that provide a wide variety of services and benefits for people and nature. Wetlands such...

Angola ratifies Abidjan Convention

The Government of Angola has ratified the Abidjan Convention, making it the 19th nation out of the 22 countries in the Convention area to...

Group knocks Tillerson’s confirmation as US Secretary of State

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday, January 1 2017 voted to confirm Rex Tillerson as the next Secretary of State. The former chairman and chief executive...

World Wetlands Day: How wetlands minimise damage from disasters

As the world celebrates the 2017 World Wetlands Day on Thursday, February 2 2017, the focus this time around is on the role played...

World Bank completes Benue infrastructure projects

Speaker, Benue State House of Assembly, Terkimbi Ikyange (Ushongo/APC), has acknowledged the contributions of Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) to the development of...

Price hike: Benue legislators upbraid Dangote Cement official

The Benue State House of Assembly has accused Dangote Cement Company for treating the House and the Benue people with levity, contempt and ridicule. This...

Paris Agreement: Deutsche Bank pulls out of coal projects

Deutsche Bank, the biggest bank in Germany, has said it will stop financing coal projects as part of its commitments under the Paris agreement...

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Worry as Dangote Refinery, oil marketers in face-off over pricing, market control

A fresh wave of confrontation appears to be brewing in Nigeria’s downstream petroleum sector, as the Dangote Refinery, a...
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Olubolade: Ekiti has lost a great son – Gov Oyebanji

The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has expressed condolences on the death of a former Military Administrator of Bayelsa...

Lagos delivers nearly 10,000 homes, targets 14,000

The Lagos State Government says it has delivered 9,970 homes in the past six years as part of ongoing...

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Worry as Dangote Refinery, oil marketers in face-off over pricing, market control

A fresh wave of confrontation appears to be brewing...

Olubolade: Ekiti has lost a great son – Gov Oyebanji

The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has expressed condolences...
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