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Monthly Archives: May, 2020

IPCC to dedicate report to former co-chair who died of coronavirus

The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be dedicated to the memory...

Kano tops again as Nigeria reports 238 new Covid-19 cases

For the second day running, the Kano has topped the list of states with Covid-19 cases in Nigeria. Nigeria on Friday, May 1, 2020 recorded...

Severe inflammation in some children probed for Covid-19 link

Doctors in several European countries have reported a small number cases of children who were suffering from severe inflammation, raising the question whether the...

COVID-19: NESREA releases guidelines for handling infectious wastes

The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) has released guidelines for handling infectious wastes, within the context of the Coronavirus pandemic. Enugu State...

Foundation to sue Dangote Group over Kogi pollution

The Mona Audu Foundation, an NGO, says it will institute a legal action against the Aliko Dangote Group of companies for polluting the environment...

Lagos conducts 8,033 COVID-19 tests, discharges 26 patients

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state has conducted 8,033 COVID-19 tests since the inception of the pandemic in...

WHO to identify animal source of COVID-19

Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, says the agency will work with relevant organisations to identify the animal source of novel coronavirus...

Coronavirus frontline workers will also help in climate crisis

May Boeve (executive-director at 350.org), Luisa Neubauer (German climate activist and one of the main organisers of the Fridays for Future movement in Germany), Sharan Burrow (general secretary of the...

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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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