Yearly Archives: 2018

UN to COP24: Prepare Africa for ravages of climate change

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called on the international community to evolve measures to prepare the African continent for the ravages of...

Renewable energy critical to addressing nation’s electricity deficit, says don

A Professor in the University of Agriculture, Markurdi, Benue State, Prof. Isaac Itodo, has urged the Federal Government to come up with a better...

Group, research institute to collaborate on afforestation

A not-for-profit outfit, The Rural Environmental Empowerment (TREE) Initiative, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN)...

COP24 overshoots closing day amid hopes for a deal

Negotiators were preparing to work well past the official close of the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice in the evening of Friday, December...

Chile to host UN climate talks in 2019

Chile has been selected to host the next United Nations’ climate conference in 2019, it was announced at the current meeting in the Polish...

COP24: We organised a top-class event, says Polish leader

“Once again, we passed the exam, we organised an absolutely top-class world party at the highest level,” President Andrzej Duda of Poland said on...

UK bids to host COP26 in 2020

“We have to make sure we can deliver a good COP, as 2020 will be a really vital COP, and we absolutely want to...

Eight shark species to benefit from greater protection

After five days of intensive discussions, the 3rd session of the Meeting of the Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of...

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Nigeria targets $2.3trn to bridge infrastructure gap

The Director-General of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Dr Jobson Ewalefoh, says the country has intensified efforts to...
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Dangote engages World Bank, IMF, US EXIM chiefs on investment drive

President/Chief Executive of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, held a series of high-level bilateral meetings with global financial leaders on...

Cobalt mining in Congo: Dirty truth behind ‘clean’ electric cars

Electric cars are sold as clean. But, in southern Congo, communities near the Tenke Fungurume mine are breathing toxic...

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Nigeria targets $2.3trn to bridge infrastructure gap

The Director-General of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC),...

Dangote engages World Bank, IMF, US EXIM chiefs on investment drive

President/Chief Executive of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, held a...