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Monthly Archives: August, 2019

German environment agency demands higher tax for dirty cars

The German Environment Agency has advocated making cars with high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions more expensive given the boom in the purchase of sport utility vehicles...

NABDA biodigester as an alternative source of energy

Over the last decades, international development organisations have been actively engaged in encouraging biogas technologies in the developing world. The development partners underscored the rising need for the...

Operators of Lagos toxic waste factory apprehended

Police in Lagos State have arrested two Chinese, Lin Piehao, 22 and Li Ruoneng, 27, who allegedly operate a factory where e-waste is illegally assembled and...

Africa: A fossil fuel-troubled continent

Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nnimmo Bassey, speaking on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at the opening of the Oilwatch Africa Conference in Port Harcourt,...

Delta to demolish structures on waterways to curb flooding

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State said on Monday, August 5, 2019 that he would demolish all structures on waterways in Warri and its environs to...

WaterAid says 3.9m people lack access to potable water in Bauchi

The Acting Director (Programme) WaterAid Nigeria, Mr Mike Essien, said on Monday, August 5, 2019 that no fewer than 3.9 million people in Bauchi State lacked...

July is hottest month ever recorded

July 2019 has beaten July 2016 to become the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, a leading climate change institute reported on Monday, August 5. The Copernicus...

Ogoni clean-up: Activist seeks review of UNEP’s Oil Assessment report

A U.S.-based Ogoni activist, Dr Goodluck Diigbo, has called for a collective review of the Oil Assessment report as captured by United Nation’s Environment Programme (UNEP)...

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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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