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Monthly Archives: October, 2019

Lagos flood: Beyond panic control, but high-tech engineering solutions

We are at it again. The Lagos megacity is being overrun by flood. Like a routine phenomenon, it happens year in, year out, often with increasing...

Getting involved with IPCC and how it’s organised

In this second of a four-part series on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, IPCC author and Director, Centre for Climate Change...

Climate change activists target London’s financial district

Climate change activists targeted London’s financial district on Monday, October 14, 2019 blocking Bank junction, vowing a day of disruption for major institutions which they said...

Disaster reduction: NEMA demands adoption of building regulations

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has called on government and stakeholders to adopt hazard resistant building standards and environmental regulations to promote disaster management in the...

Govt urged to ban e-cigarettes amid increasing vaping deaths

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has called on the Nigerian government to place a ban on e-cigarettes, shisha and other so-called novel...

New Nairobi railway masterplan to expand city’s CBD

The Government of Kenya has released the much-awaited Nairobi Railway City masterplan, which is aimed at transforming the bustling urban centre and address congestion. The...

Antiques trade moves to quash UK’s ivory law in court

A law designed to protect elephants, passed with popular support and cross-party Parliamentary backing in 2018, could be struck off the statute books because of resistance...

Nigeria, UNDP engage business under NDC execution process

In 2015, Nigeria submitted its commitment to tackling climate change at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP21 in Paris, France with the...

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Taraba to plant 2m tree crops to mitigate climate change, promote economic empowerment

Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State on Saturday, April 20, 2024, flagged-off a project involving the planting of two...
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BirdLife takes up fresh campaign to safeguard West African vultures

BirdLife Africa has said that the launch of the West African Vulture Conservation Action Plan (WAVCAP), which held on...

Tpl. Catherine Kehinde George: A trailblazer in town planning education

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you die and rotten, either write things worth reading or...

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Taraba to plant 2m tree crops to mitigate climate change, promote economic empowerment

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BirdLife takes up fresh campaign to safeguard West African vultures

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