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Monthly Archives: January, 2019

Emergency management: NEMA seeks collaboration of stakeholders

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday, January 11, 2019 called for collaboration with stakeholders in the South-South region for effective emergency management of the...

Group seeks support for GM beans in Nigeria

A group comprising scientists and journalists, the Alliance for Science, has taken up a campaign to promote genetically modified (GM) cowpea and ensure that the product...

British mining firm may be liable for pollution by subsidiary

The latest hearing in the case of the Zambian communities consistently polluted by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a subsidiary of British miner Vedanta, will be heard...

Paris Agreement: Despite Katowice, world still off course – Espinosa

In her first address since the conclusion of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland in December 2018, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework...

World Bank Group president selection begins

The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank met on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 under the Chairmanship of its Dean, Dr. Merza Hasan,...

UN confirms Brazil’s pull-out from migration pact

Brazil has informed the United Nations that it will pull out of a migration pact, a UN spokesman said on Thursday, January 10, 2019. Brazilian President...

ILO, Germany cooperate on ‘green jobs’, socially responsible structural change

The third conference of the UN Alliance for Sustainable Growth (PAGE) began on Thursday, January 10, 2019 in Cape Town, South Africa, with the German Parliamentary...

Americans having a rethink about global warming, says study

As of March 2018, the majority of Americans (73%) believe that global warming is happening, and over half of registered voters (59%) believe that humans are...

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BATN Foundation commissions solar-powered borehole tó end 30-year water crisis in Kano community

 “For 30 years, we fetched water from far places, paying N100naira for a jerrican of water that wasn’t even...
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BATN Foundation, SwagCo flag off Maize Micro-Enterprise Project to empower Ekiti farmers

In a landmark move to boost food security and rural livelihoods, the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) in...

NBSAP: A welcome step toward food sovereignty, biosafety

Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) commends the Federal Government for endorsing the revised National Biodiversity Strategy and Action...

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