Monthly Archives: March, 2020

How we’re fighting COVID-19 – UNDP

New York-based United Nations' global development network, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), says it is helping countries to urgently and effectively respond to COVID-19 as...

Nigeria records first COVID-19 death

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie  Ehanire, has confirmed Nigeria’s first coronavirus (COVID-19) death. Ehanire also said that confirmed cases of COVID-19 has risen to...

Coronavirus: 100 more U.S. deaths in a single day

Democrats blocked a vote on the $2 trillion stimulus bill, prompting an eruption of bipartisan fury on the Senate floor. Democrats have said the bill does too much to...

Coronavirus, now at 300,000 cases worldwide, spreading faster – WHO

The coronavirus is spreading ever faster, and there are now over 300,000 confirmed cases recorded worldwide, the World Health Organisation’s figures said on Monday,...

COVID-19: Nigeria seeks China’s support, as cases reach 36

The Federal Ministry of Health(FMoH), has called on the Chinese Government to lend its technical support to the fight against Coronavirus (COVID19), in the...

COVID-19 pandemic tagged wakeup call on right to water

On the occasion of the 2020 World Water Day observed on Sunday, March 22,  the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has  advised governments...

Technofixes and state of Nigeria’s biosafety – Bassey

A time like this demands and permits only sober consideration of where we are coming from, where we are and where we are heading to. The...

How litigation can promote effective biosafety management

Concerned stakeholders who converged on Abuja on Monday, March 23, 2020 at a daylong forum explored the practicality of litigation as an effective tool to promote...

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A third of animal habitats could experience multiple extreme events by 2085 – Study

By 2085, 36 percent of species’ current habitats on land could be exposed to multiple types of climate-driven extreme...
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Leaders call for Africa-led solutions following landmark court ruling on climate obligations

African leaders, policymakers, legal experts, scientists and practitioners have called for African-led solutions to climate change, as its impacts...

Two-thirds of global hunger concentrated in 10 countries – Report 

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises on Friday, April 24, revealed that two-thirds of all people facing high...

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A third of animal habitats could experience multiple extreme events by 2085 – Study

By 2085, 36 percent of species’ current habitats on...

Leaders call for Africa-led solutions following landmark court ruling on climate obligations

African leaders, policymakers, legal experts, scientists and practitioners have...