Monthly Archives: June, 2020

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Covid-19: How misinformation puts Africa at risk

This year 2020 begins a new decade that promises to be one of dreadful disruptions, with Africa holding the weakest end of the stick....
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Marine

Ecologists seek new marine protected area spanning Nigeria, DRC, Cameroon

A virtual meeting on freshwater and marine ecosystems that held from on June 8 to 9, 2020 rose with a unanimous call for the...
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Mixed reactions greet NOSDRA’s plan to extend mandate to downstream

Some environmentalists in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria on Thursday, June 11, 2020 expressed mixed reactions on the announcement by National Oil Spills...
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South Africa bankrolling billions in fossil fuels, report reveals

A new report released on Thursday, June 11, 2020 by Friends of the Earth U.S. and Oil Change International reveals South Africa provided at least ZAR...
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Science & Tech

Australian scientists turn waste carbon dioxide into useful industrial materials

Australian scientists have developed a method to turn harmful carbon dioxide into useful industrial products such as fuel and plastics, based on a paper...
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Pollution

Lockdown, land tussle delaying Ogoni cleanup – NOSDRA

The Director General, National Oil Spill Detection Agency (NOSDRA), Mr Idris Musa, has said that the lockdown occasioned by COVID-19 caused a delay in...
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Health

Future ebola outbreaks across Africa possible – WHO

A leading expert at the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Ebola response team, Ngoy Nsenga, has said that Ebola is likely to re-emerge in different...
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Agric & Biotech

COVID-19: Nigerian farmers to receive improved seeds

Farmers in 13 states of Nigeria will receive improved seeds of sorghum, pearl millet, cowpea and rice as a part of an initiative to...
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Oil & Gas

33 young engineers begin training as NCDMB reiterates mandate

Thirty-three young graduates of engineering, geology and related disciplines on Friday, March 13, 2026, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,...
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Ugo Amadi, Adeola Yusuf re-elected as NAEC gets new exco 

The Association of Energy Correspondents in Nigeria (NAEC) has elected a new set of executives for the next two...
Water & Sanitation

Lagos reintroduces monthly environmental sanitation, begins in April

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has formally flagged off the reintroduction of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise. Sanwo-Olu said...

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Oil & Gas

33 young engineers begin training as NCDMB reiterates mandate

Thirty-three young graduates of engineering, geology and related disciplines...
News

Ugo Amadi, Adeola Yusuf re-elected as NAEC gets new exco 

The Association of Energy Correspondents in Nigeria (NAEC) has...