Yearly Archives: 2020

COP26: The Gambia amply promoting nature, sustainable land use – Melbourne

In the run up to COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021, the British High Commission in Banjul hosted a webinar on Wednesday, September 9,...

Red Flags on the Blue Economy, by Nnimmo Bassey

Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nnimmo Bassey, in his welcome words at the organisation’s School of Ecology Session on Blue Economy Blues...

Spare Change, by Onome Olive Etisioro

Adukè was about to lose her mind. “Madam, the increase in the price for these foodstuffs is not our fault o,” the buxom yam seller...

Govt, Lagos to address infrastructural decline in Festac Town

The Federal Government and the Lagos State Government have resolved to address the degeneration of infrastructure in Festac Town – a federal housing estate...

COVID-19: AfDB approves $27.33m for AU’s response initiative

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $27.33 million in grants to boost the African Union’s  efforts to mobilise a continental response to curb...

Erosion: NEWMAP resettles 900 persons in Ebonyi with over N250m

Ebonyi State Project Coordinator, Nigerian and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), Dr Philip Echiegu, has said that the organisaton resettled 900 ecologically disadvantaged persons in...

Greek wildfire rages near Athens, residential areas evacuated

A wildfire fanned by strong winds forced the evacuation of a boarding school and six residential areas southeast of Athens on Wednesday, September 9,...

Over three billion people protected from harmful trans fat in their food – WHO

Two years into the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) effort to eliminate industrially produced trans fats from the global food supply, the UN body reports...

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Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed a bill prohibiting open defecation. The bill aims to outlaw open...
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Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an electronic system that will simplify the process of obtaining physical...

Nigeria committed to sustainability of biosphere reserves, ecological research – FRIN DG

Director-General, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), Prof. Zacharia Yaduma, says Nigeria is strengthening policy and legal frameworks to...

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Cross River Assembly passes open defecation prohibition bill, Lagos apprehends five offenders

The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed...

Lagos launches online system for building permit

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has launched an...