Monthly Archives: July, 2018

Leading firms to decarbonise products, services

Many of the world’s biggest companies plan to decarbonise at least half of their products and services within the next 10 years, a new survey...

Zero Emission Vehicle Challenge launched

Ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in September 2018, states, regions, cities and international businesses groups and other NGOs are...

GMO: Biosafety agency urges retailers to formalise dealings or face prosecution

Director General/CEO of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, has advised retailers across the country who sell products that contain genetically...

How CODE is mainstreaming advocacy communication for citizen engagement in governance

At a time when many researchers lament the deterioration in the quality of democracy and accountability in Nigeria, part of the reason governance has...

Record-breaking heavy rainfall events increases under global warming

Heavy rainfall events setting ever new records have been increasing strikingly in the past 30 years. While before 1980, multi-decadal fluctuations in extreme rainfall events...

FAO, WFP establish joint support to boost food production in northeast

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday, July 12, 2018 established joint support to augment food...

MSF decries lack of shelter, sanitation for 5,000 IDPs in Borno

A humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has decried the pathetic state of newly-arrived displaced persons in Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Council of Borno...

GEF Small Grant Programme powers school with solar in FCT

The Global Environmental Facility Small Grant Programme (GEF-SGP) has provided solar panels to supply electricity to eight classrooms in Government Secondary School (GSS), Yaba...

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ECA seeks coordinated action to advance SDGs, Agenda 2063

The Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Claver Gatete, has called for coordinated and transformative action to advance...
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Kano to plant 10m trees to mitigate climate change 

The Kano State Government has announced plans to distribute 10 million tree seedlings for planting across the state, as...

Mixed reactions trail Lagos solar approval policy

Some Lagos residents on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, expressed divergent views on a directive by the state government requiring...

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ECA seeks coordinated action to advance SDGs, Agenda 2063

The Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Claver...

Kano to plant 10m trees to mitigate climate change 

The Kano State Government has announced plans to distribute...