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Monthly Archives: December, 2019

South Africa calls for robust multilateral response to climate change

South Africa on Monday, December 9, 2019 called for a robust multilateral response to climate change in a way that would assist African and other developing...

Task before Lagos Appeals Committee on Physical Planning and Building Control

We are out to let Lagosians see the benefit of our intervention, but it is also about time we made the correction and say that government...

COP25: Nigeria’s minister craves more attention to climate change, finance

Nigeria’s Minister of Environment, Dr. Mahmood Mohammad Abubakar, has called on nations across the globe to give the climate change phenomenon the attention it deserves, stressing...

Biosafety agency asked to revoke permits granted controversial genetically modified maize

The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has called on the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) to revoke the permits granted for the water efficient maize...

How Nigeria can address institutional gaps in natural resource governance, by Ojo

The Federal Government of Nigeria has been urged to shift from fossil fuel to renewable energy sources by divesting from oil and gas and coal to...

COP25: Nigeria to engage in policy negotiations promoting NDCs

As nations across the globe gather for the UN climate conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain, with various expectations and agendas, Nigeria’s Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammad...

COP25: Adebote, others share how youths lead climate action

In 2000, flood in Mozambique was responsible for 800 deaths, 329,000 displaced people and almost two million people affected in all. Between July 2011 and 2012,...

Tobacco-free snus a viable alternative to cigarettes in Africa

Although smoking rates in Africa have increased, cessation rates have remained very low. Currently, Africa has about 77 million cigarette smokers, with over 250,000 of them...

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Ghana’s biosafety authority: Granting GMO import permits to be based on regulations, international best practices

Clearly, it will not be out of place to declare April 2024 as “the month of Genetic Engineering GE)”...
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Stakeholders advocate increased budget to fight impacts of climate change

Stakeholders in the environment sector have called for increased budget allocation to fight the impacts of climate change in...

Domestic ivory markets must not be reopened – EPI Foundation

The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed...

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